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WCB Wrote:
"As I said, I work with multiple NCAA crews, depending on the conference. On one crew, we NEVER grant the appeal when my 3BU is in C or my 1BU is in B. I feel that I can make the call from that angle, but I've deferred to their experience. In that conference, we have a couple of coaches that go apesh*t when that call gets made from that angle"
WCB,
With all due respect (although I don't respect you), if a fellow college umpire told me not to come to him for help on a check/half swing because he was in B or C, I'd tell him to go f' himself. When I go to an umpire for help on a check swing, I don't give a rat's a$$ where he's standing, I want him to give me what he's got. And guess what, skip isn't going to say anything because he knows that he would be arguing balls and strikes and we know he doesn't want to do that.
Old school umpires say I won't change your call when I'm in the middle - those are the same guys that are "living and dying" with their calls because they're too proud to get help. Those guys won't be around much longer in NCAA ball if they don't change their ways. At the D-I level and also in independent ball (Frontier League), more and more umpires are going to say in the pregame..."When I come to you on check swings, give me what you got." Anything different, I don't want to work with them again.
[Edited by Sal Giaco on Oct 22nd, 2004 at 06:08 PM]
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