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Old Tue Jan 24, 2006, 06:22am
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If I am the home umpire in that situation, I just stand there and look at my partner and wait for the ask for help. I do not interject into it. I have had some guys take the hint that I have something different and others have not. If it is a too close to call situation then I will just get ready for the next pitch.
Now some may question why I just stand there and the anser is 2 fold: 1. to get ready to help if the question comes and 2. to get ready to walk a coach off a field if it does not.
Most coaches will not hold it against the plate umpire if their partner does not ask for help and maybe that is a way of throwing your partner under a bus but to me he is doing that to himself already if he is too stubborn to ask for the help anyways. Some coaches may try to take it up with me but I tell them he made the call you go talk to him and I walk away from them.
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