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No, what is hard to understand why you feel compelled to justify your error. Cederstrom is relaying second hand information. Marsh already said what he did and it is clear!
Umpiring 101: What part of this is confusing?
To say "Safe, no tag" is redundant.
If he was tagged, he would be "Out".
There is no signal in professional mechanics for "Safe, no tag." It is either "Safe" or "Out"; the qualifiers can be "...no ball", "...no bag" but never, "...no tag". Of course he said that he thought Marsh called him safe because the ball was on the ground. All professional umpires are taught to qualify any call that is not a simple "Safe" or "Out". They do this by verbalizing the call. I know you didn't bring this into the conversation, I did. I tried to explain how the call couldn't have been made the way you implied. Again, Marsh stated this during his ESPN interview.
I'm sure that Rick did not mean that he was safe because there was no tag. Like the aformentioned Umpiring 101, if he ws tagged he would be out, since it happened before he gained first base. Rick was simplifying it for you.
Fitz laughed when I told him of your opinion a week ago.
He would dump any Minor Leaguer who gave this answer.
[Edited by WindyCityBlue on Oct 26th, 2004 at 02:58 PM]
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