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Originally posted by Tim C
I admit freely to being an old timer.
I admit freely that the new concept "of get the call right no matter what" has been hard for me accept.
I also admit freely that after games when asking partners (and you know partners they NEVER tell you the truth) if I nailed the specific call they have always replied, "yes!"
gordon I believe that in EVERY play I had enough and proper information to make the call . . . if you were in "C" and there was a pickoff at third and you couldn't see the tag . . . would you ask the PU for help?
I know my answer to that one . . .
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Hey Tim as the field guy the only mechanic I know of where it's proper to ask for help is at first. Obviously I'll live and die with my call elsewhere. The proper mechanic is for the plate guy to be prepared to help his partner. Now if I were working with you I'd be prepared to help, but, if you don't want it I've got no problem with you living and dieing with whatever call you make. And if asked you gotta help him on this one my answer would be "I'm sure my partner got it right. If he needed my input he would have asked." In terms of getting the call right if the boys in blue in the show have adopted this philosophy who am I to argue that it's wrong.