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If you haven't called a game from behind a pitcher, give it a try some time in a preseason setting. You can see the strike zone MUCH better from there than you can from the traditional umpire position.
I've called quite a few allstar practice games (basicaly intersquad scimmages) where they wanted someone to call balls and strikes and that's about it. I worked from behind the mound and it's a much better view.
Whether or not I agree with the original poster, I don't know. I wouldn't do it in a real game just becuase of the perception issue. You may be able to see better from back there, but if everyone in the stands thinks you can't, then you're going to catch all kinds of crap.
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