I liked this part of the post:
"I go out to argue, and calmly ask him..."
Mcrowder, you sure do have some kind and gentle arguments! Is a "calm argument" anything like a "quiet riot"? Next time you go out to "argue" we want to see some veins bulging and some spit flying!
But that does illustrate the point that Bob posted. If you had charged out of the dugout with both guns blazing, the odds of getting this call changed would have gone way down.
The past few years I coached and played in an adult co-ed slow pitch league. I had several calls reversed by calmly requesting time and slowly stating my case.
My ability to get those calls reversed was more a testament of my calm approach- and of how crappy some of the umpires were!- than of any unusual powers of persuasion that I might possess. Of course, it helped on these calls that I knew the rule and the umpire didn't!
And they were all rule application issues. You, mcrowder, successfully got a
judgement call reversed, so you get extra points for that!
*Edited to add: Oh, yeah...I just thought of another one. About 20 years ago, after unsuccessfully questioning a "foul" call in a game, I filed a protest and the call was reversed about three days later. So on that one, I lost the initial battle but eventually won the war.