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Originally posted by rulesmaven
What happens if you are absolutely positively certain that your partner has missed a call. If you know you have some help to give that could save your partner from the interview room after the game and tens of thousands of people who like to call talk radio knowing his name?
In basketball, it is unusual but not unheard of for those who have reffed together frequently to develop ways to let each other know silently and quickly that they have help to offer if asked. If I'm not mistaken, I would say I saw something like this on the field last year during game 6 of the ALCS on a home run/no home run call.
Are we certain here that no such thing goes on at this level, and that U1 hadn't actually made it clear that he had no help to offer?
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In basketball, there are certain plays where you give help (ball tipped oob) and certain plays where you don't (contact or not on a foul).
So it is in baseball. Give help on the homerun call; don't give it on this tag.
Even if U1 (or, for that matter, instant replay) could have hleped on this call, it wouldn't take much to cahnge teh situation to one where help would just make things worse -- and it's hard to draw the line.