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Old Thu Aug 03, 2006, 11:43am
jwwashburn jwwashburn is offline
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Originally Posted by UMP25
29 years of umpiring, 4000+ games, and I have called it, probably once or twice per year; yet I have never had an ejection. I call it when it's so obvious that the guy in center field can see it. Example of an argument: "Now how the hell could you have seen that, Randy?!?" My reply: "Bill, when your batter runs up to bunt the ball and is halfway to the pitcher's mound when he makes contact with the ball, it's rather easy to call."

End of discussion.
Of course it is easy to call and see. No matter what Jocko Conlon and his disciples here say, it is impossible NOT to see sometimes.

For anyone with any amount of experience to say he has NEVER seen it makes the BS detector beep quite vociferously.

Joe
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