|
Agree with BZ.
It is never the umpire's responsibility to line the field. It is their responsibility to call a fair game based on the field they arrive at.
(PS - I don't believe it's a softball/baseball thing at all. I think it's a competent/incompetent field-liner-guy thing)
I've had a few fields lined so poorly that I wipe out part of the line (the worst being foul-lines that were perfect at the bases, and very meticulously lined straight at the FRONT of home plate - I erased the first 25 feet or so of the line before we started, and told the coaches I'd go by sight until the lines started, and by the lines after that), but usually it's "Coaches, these lines were put down by Cletis the Town Drunk, but we're going with them."
|