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Originally posted by whatgameyouwatchinblue
Most agreed that they have called the "gorilla" arm movement, but they have warned about the glove movement (about the rollover of the signs). We have all called and will continue to that movement of both hands/arms is the beginning of the pitch.
We agreed that we will continue that practice next week in the playoffs since most of the teams coming in will be from out of our area and we really don't know what they've had called during the season.
And theres the problem with picking and choosing what balks your gonna call. What happens when one of the teams you service goes out of your cover area and gets balked for rolling his glove? Then that umpires gonna here from that coach that has never been called in his home area.
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Sorry but it ain't gonna happen. If any thing gets called its going to be in our area. The rest of our state is much more lenient than our area.
That's why coaches like to have our group calling their games in the playoffs. They know what they are going to get year after year.
I guess the bottom line is that we call the things that matter to the game. Something as picky as a glove movement which is only called in FED "some of the time" is just not that big of a deal.
Someone made the analogy to football, well I also call basketball and its a LOT more that way in basketball. We call it advantage/disadvantage. How is the pitcher putting the defense at a disadvantage when everyone in the ballpark knows what he is doing.
I'll stop now with being the devil's advocate as far as this matter. Its just not that big a deal.
Now something that did matter - big game Friday night to decide who makes it to the 5A playoffs and F6 tells stealing R1 that the pitch was a foul ball. Stupid R1 starts back to first. I call time out (quickly)
F6 wants to know who called time, I said I did. Its a 1-0 game in the 6th inning, I'm not going to give R1 third with verbal interference, but by calling time we preserved the integrity of the game IMO. And no one ever knew what had happened except for F6 and myself.
Now would you send him to third? I think we did the right thing. And we didn't have to eject any coaches.
Thanks
David