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AtlUmp, sorry for the case of mistaken identity. It didn't look like Steve's writing style.
...I think you are just getting to carried away with the technicalities. . .
You wrote that the play would take "the second or so" for the play to develop. Technicalities? schmeknicalities! Math makes my head spin too. But it points out why PU only had one point of reference on the FOUL BALL call, which was the ball touching foul.
And sticking with the original point, this is a difficult situation. Like the commercial on TV - "The matrix isn't perfect".
. . .Besides if this happens so fast then are you saying that in the 350/1000's of a second from the ping of the bat to glove contact you can react, move you're hand, grab the mask and remove it? I believe this would take care of itself, it's going to happen before the mask comes off anyway. . .
Not sure what point you are trying to make.
. . .Also why do you believe the BU would have a better view from behind and right of the play as oppossed to the PU with the play right in front? . . .
I was not stating an opinion. BU was in the C2 position, and had a clear view of the tip which was on the same side of the infield.
...Even if the BU could make a call all you would end up with is a good chance of two umpires making a different call on the same play. Again this is a call the PU has got to make...
Whoa podna! Never suggested that BU make the call.
Perhaps a BU-to-PU tip signal would have given PU something to additional to consider and a better chance of making the correct call.
PU did make the call, but the call was wrong.
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