[JR12]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

Call strikes, call strikes, call strikes...if you're consistent, you'll never hear anything from any coach, player, or fan, etc...(not that we care anyway)...but you all catch my drift...good plate umpires establish a zone, they stick with it, and players learn to swing the bat. Every pitch starts out as a strike until it proves to be a ball.

Agreed! Think about every game youv'e ever done behind the plate. Those pitches that are just off the plate that are called a ball is when you hear all those ooooos!! and ahhhhhhs! Call those pitches strikes EVERYONE WANTS YOU TO!!!!!!!