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Originally posted by Matthew F
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Granted this happened several years ago, should a stich like this, nowadays, be discussed between the umpires to get the correct call?
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Matt;
The posters here are big dogging you. This is their way of putting little dogs in their place and you are definitely a little dog. Your original post posed a question which is legitimate and which I reprinted above since most posters seemed to have forgotten it in their attempt to put you in your place.
10 years ago, the BU would have to live with the call and you did the right thing in making him suck it up. Today, depending on the circumstances, you can get away with a conference and change the call.
Yes, you can be reasonably sure that your partner screwed the pooch. In my first post, I described methods by which you could be certain. If you believe that the team in whose favor the call went does not believe the call was correct, that is a good time to get together with your partner and have a discussion. Make him be the one to change it however and get ready for an ejection depending on how you handle it.
When you decide to make a change, go over to the coach that the call will go against and explain the change to him before you announce it. I have never seen this bit of diplomacy fail to defuse the situation. Ejections have never been necessary.
The tag up play is one type of call that is best seen from a distance. A bigger field of vision is critical to getting this kind of call right. Regrettably, umpires are so hung up on mouthing pro-school pabulum, that they fail to experiment with and to investigate ways of bettering their games. I doubt that there are more that a handful of umpires out there that realize that there are several types of calls that can better be seen from 45 or more feet. Since this runs counter to established dogma, their brains do not allow them to consider the possibility.
Peter