JJ and Tee,
Thank you for responding to the query. We deal in hypotheticals all of the time here and on the field. This was just another example of that possibility. I appreciate your candor Tee, I was happy to see that you would agree about the plate call. (WHERE WERE YOU WHEN PAPA C. WAS DOGGING ME ABOUT WHAT ALL EXPERIENCED UMPIRES CALL?) I knew that I wasn't the only one that calls them the way they are supposed to be called.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; this rule stinks and that is why I hate umpiring Fed ruled baseball. You would get laughed off of most college fields for even hinting that you would call something like this. Tee's comment about injecting himself into the game is what I've preached all along. Call what is easily supported by the books. (Yes, I was careful with the wording, since some of you are still on the newsletter bandwagon and no one actually has one.) That's is what the coach will look up when the game is over.
I may just have to put you back on that list, Tee! I'm sure that you lost sleep over it.
Thank you again for the courteous reply.