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Originally Posted by PWL
Oh my Lord, you should write children's books with that imagination. If he has been calling games for a month or more at least in HS, he should be familiar with a safe or out signal. When asked to appeal, I go when the defense asks. If I thought it was a strike attempt is irrelevant. Whatever your problem is, well your problem. I could have just stood up and said, "Strike, on the swing", but wasn't afforded that chance by the defense. Like I mentioned before, the call could go either way. I just felt like asking his opinion to see if he knew what was or wasn't. He gave me his call, which was acceptable in my book. It was his judgment. Whether he knew the difference, I don't know. However, he does know the proper mechanic as of today.
So get off the soapbox, the sky isn't falling Chicken Little.......... 
Cut me some slack. I've had to work with guys that don't where to stand in "A". That have gone into the infield base line to call outs on fly balls. That thinks 1BLX is almost up to the forty five foot running lane.........  |
1. Its irrelelevant whether or not the defense asks you to appeal if you, as a plate umpire, have a strike, which you stated that you did. Why on earth would you go to your partner if in your judgment the batter offered at the pitch? If the defense asks for an appeal before you make your call, how about a simple "Yes you did" while pointing at the batter then signal strike?
2. You are the plate umpire but think that "
If I thought it was a strike attempt is irrelevant." Yet I'm the one with the imagination?
3. At no point during this thread did I get personal. Yet after you paint yourself into a corner, you say I'm
and I need to
I guess that means I win, thanks.
A wise man once said, "It's better to say nothing and be thought a fool than..." well, nevermind.