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I must have worked with his cousin here in my neck of the woods on Saturday. I had seen this guy work some and heard all of the stories about his shall we say "antics". Well, they are true. On one occasion, and we are using OBR here, he refused to go to me on check swing request because "I was in the C slot". After I explained to him that he had to go to me with the appeal, he said" Oh well, he definitely didn't go around". Trouble was it was the first check in a while that I was going to reverse.
He indicated the location of every ball he called with his hands (often the right). He literally danced behind the catcher at times like he thought he was going to get clobbered (most weren't even close). On one such occasion he called the pitch a strike. His balls and strikes judgement wasn't that bad, but you could have never made me beleive his plate work gave him a shred of consistency.
I could go on and on. I actually was worried that he would blow me off when I tried to offer him some advice. Instead, he told me that he welcomed constructive criticism. Since he was working the next game with a different partner and I was leaving, I couldn't have kept him around for the hour plus I needed to offer up some advice.
Lawrence
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