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Tony,
What a great question . . . I also like it when one of my employees asks a questions but also has a solution (or two or three):
"Calling the glove" is far different from what you ask.
It is my job to call "strikes" if they are.
Seems simple, yet it is like all umpiring.
Umpiring is remarkably simple yet endlessly complicated (that is a direct steal from an Arnold Palmer article in Sports Illustrated from the early 60's just replacing "golf" with "umpiring").
I call ALL pitches down the "gut" strikes. I call strikes if the cather drops the ball, I call strikes if the pitch is not where it was intended.
I do not expand my strike zone to satisfy where a catcher sets-up. I have no idea whether he is trying to expand MY strike zone or that of the BATTER. I just keep consistent.
Calling great balls/strikes starts with timing. We know that.
We also know that we need to include in the process the positioning of the batter and how the pitch is framed (caught) by the catcher.
We know that a curve ball could, by rule, catch the strike zone yet bounce in the dirt before reaching F2 . . . we know enough to not call that a strike . . .
Tony, "my" strike zone is shaped like an egg. It starts at the bottom of the letters (on a normal uniform)at the top end and ends at the bottom of the knee. I call the corners if any part of the ball touches them.
All this information is processed during the instant of reflection that occurs before making the call.
In my opinion the strike zone is much more "art" than "science".
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