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I'm with Steve on this one.
With a new or weaker umpire (not necessarily one in the same), I will not interject my opinion, but when I approach the conversation, I will make it quite clear that my partner needs to talk to me before making a decision.
I do this to help with the umpire's confidence AND so there is some appearance that s/he is the one making the call, not me interfering with his/her call. This umpire doesn't need to hear about coming to me on every play the rest of the game just because one team or the other didn't care for the call.
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