[mcrowder]

Pete - so many absurd things to respond to. I'll pick just one:

"How can (he) assume that another umpire has a better angle than I did?"

Uh... easily - he had NO angle, and if anyone knows that, it would be him. EVERYONE (except PU) had a better angle than him. The only question is whether they saw enough to make him change his mind on a call HE KNOWS HE DID NOT SEE. A lot of debate is being had regarding whether McClelland (and/or U9) was looking at this part of the play. I think they did... but the point is moot. The point is, U2 DID NOT SEE the tag (yet called one... aren't we all told in our very first year - see an out, call an out?), KNOWS he did not see the tag, yet refused to even ASK if anyone else had a view of the tag.

One reason, and one reason only. Ego.

And I suspect the folks in charge of officiating have asked him - How did you see a tag from that position, and if you didn't see one, why did you call an out... and further, why didn't you ask if anyone else saw it.

I'm not a champion of asking for help on every single call. I AM a proponent of asking for help when YOU YOURSELF know you did not see a particular play, and that particular play A) could be fixed, and B) could possibly have been seen by someone else. (And no, I'm not a rookie).