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Originally Posted by Rich Ives
Tell that to the umpire that told me - he's been umpiring since 1957 so he has 50 years and is still active in Illinois. He's been to 10 state finals and Umpire-in-Chief for either A or AA each year for the past 7.
As the saying goes, some umpires have xx years experience and some have one year's experience xx times.
I guess that kind of shoots a hole in your line of thinking.
Nope. You're being paid to call the plays and make the decisions based on the rules and not using over-simplified no-brainer guidelines.
As far as the big bucks is concerned - I wouldn't exactly call $50 - $60 the "big bucks".
You'll catch on to the jargon after you've been here awhile.
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That's exactly what I'm doing - calling plays based on the rules. I don't do college or leagues that use OBR. I do high school and lower only, and it's my choice. All the other umpires in our organization call it the same way and we have a very good track record. If that places us in the minority, so be it.
The difference between our approaches, is that mine is cut and dried; and until "IMMINENT" and "attempting to make a play" are defined so that I don't have to interpret, I'm going to continue to call it the same way. There is no way any coach can fault that logic. They don't have to like it, but they can't fault it.