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Originally posted by David B
Will has hit the nail on the head.
You can do what you want in your parts, but around here, PU is going to make the call every time.
And if I'm doing an evaluation on a BU who poaches the call, then he's going to get written up also.
You keep quoting the FED manual, well look at the parts on fly ball coverage. Who has the fly ball in the infield, who has fair and foul.
Both in the play that you wrote about are PU's responsibility. If PU needs help he will ask BU what he saw.
That's the correct way.
If you don't want our opinions, then please don't ask for them.
Thanks
David
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I will be accused of flaming you, but that is not my intention. I did not ask any questions about mechanics in the post. I did not ask who had what and who should make what call. I only asked about what call you would have on a particular play. Others choose to harp on the fact that the PU has this, and the PU has that. I personally do not care. I do not do what others think is right, I do what my partner and I do is right for that day. I always try to have a pregame with my partner so that WE can be on the same page. And because I work with guys that have all types of backgrounds, we may do some Pro Mechanics, some college mechanics or any mechanics that an individual was taught by their association or camp they attended.
And if you go back and actually read the original post, you will see that I never made a "interference" or catch/no catch call. We had a situation of malicious contact. I did not realize that malicious contact was only one person's call. And really we had no interference, because the ball was caught. The thing I wanted to really know, was whether or not you are going to have something for the BR knocking the fielder on his azz!!! The BR ran completely over the first baseman with a block you see on highlights of the NFL. Was the fielder attempting to make the play? Yes, but was the play made by the pitcher, not the first baseman that was knocked over? Yes. I did not realize that "interference" was an appeal situation. But if you want to let the PU make a call of unsportsmanlike behavior only, well that is what you have the right to do.
Now because of the nature of the play we have a possible "interference" call, that is another issue. Because that did not happen here. I appreciate the concern about the mechanics, but the question is about the rules. I do not need help about what the proper mechanic or who has what and when. And if I passed on this, I would have been accused of not applying the rules properly. Because the contact was so obvious and severe that someone need to make some type of call. It just happen to be (with no one on base) that I was watching all the players anyway. And because I was looking there, I clearly saw the entire play. My only concern was that we would have had a fight if SOMEONE would have done nothing. And because the PU was watching the ball, he might not have seen what happen completely. But then again, he had no problem with the call. Either way, I have a coach in my face about why I did call or not call what happen.
Please take your egos out of this. This should have been a rules question and answer, not a philosophy on who has what and when. I shared the play because it was rather unusual, and just wanted input. I already did what I felt was the proper call, I just wanted to see if I would be the only one coming to that conclusion. Sorry most of you could not be professional enough to keep it that way. The "BOOKS" say many things, and if you look hard enough, you will find ambigious things than mechanics that contradict themselves from time to time. That is why a pregame is so important
Peace.
[Edited by JRutledge on Apr 24th, 2001 at 12:54 PM]