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Old Mon Jun 13, 2005, 12:09am
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser

Don't reward anyone. Just call the freaking play.

Rich I wish you would post the way you umpire.

You cannot tell me that if F6 makes a Jeter like play and the play is that close you are not going to "reward" the defense, conversely, if it's a routine play and B1 is busting it out of the box and F4/F6 takes their "sweet time" and turns a routine play into a "coin flip" play that you are not going to "reward" the offense.

Perhaps you do not use the term "reward" but you have to have some rationale behind your call and IMO it's not as simple as "just call the freaking play"

With all your experience, please try and help the younger umpires by giving them guidelines rather than simply post rhetoric.

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