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Originally Posted by PAT THE REF
Hey everyone,
What do you think??? Thanks
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Hopefully, someone was there to watch them and prepare an evaluation.
Here's what we do not know.
Did these new guys simply have the "jitters" in their first game. In other words perhaps they knew the rule but simply "froze". It happened to me when I first started.
It's much easier to get rid of the "jitters" "butterflys", when you play the game then when you umpire.
We have had recent threads on the state of the Minor League umpires Union. Suppose you did take an AAA Game with no other Pro or even High Level (D1)college experience. Chances are one would be nervous (no matter how many games they called) in dealing with professional baseball and if something routine did happen it's not impossible that a very good umpire would "freeze"
in doing his first Pro Game.
In Summary: I would start with the evaluation from a knowledgeable official, talk to the umpires and decide whether or not it was first game "jitters" or they need further training before they go into their next game.
Pete Booth