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Originally Posted by jkumpire
Here we go:
1. Yes, the rules are unwritten, but: Own your own call. PU made the call, stick with it. If you are wrong, life's is tough when your mistake is shown on ESPN, I'll trade with him any day.
2. Once a play it happens it is over, you can't go back and change it later.
3. Appeals can be made on some rule violations until the next pitch or play not at the end of a half ining, and not three innings later.
4. Judgement calls are not appealable (normally), and rule mistakes have to be appealed when the happen, not later.
Garth, I see your point, I believe. I think you are saying that the crew used 9.01c to change the score when they decided the PU made an error, whether it was a judgement call or rule that he blew in making the incorrect call. And the time doesn't matter, they can change things any time they want to
My view is that if he made a bad judgement call, the PU has to live with it, you can't go back and change the whole game situation three innings after the call was made. You are opening up Pandora's Box for questioning calls.
If the PU blew a rule the offense has to come out then and appeal or protest the game when the call was blown.
In my view of the rules, the umpire does not have the ability under the rules to hit a reset button and and play god to cover up a mistake. You have to eat the call in this case.
The MLB suits don't agree, their mistake.
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The rules regarding the timing of an appeal applies to the "offended" team, not umpires.
9.01 (c) is, indeed, the God Clause.
The action they took further convinces me that the issue was not a judgment call. That they would have left alone. This was, no doubt, a misapplication of the rules, and whether we like it or not, the die was cast for this use of 9.01(c) two years ago when MLB began encouraging the umpires to huddle, hold hands, sing and "get it right."
I am not any more in favor of this approach to umpiring than you, however, I have seen enough of it at the MiLB and MLB levels to understand that I am powerless to stop this perverted concept of progress.
I also have matured in age and attitude to the point that I won't get heartburn over it.
Bottom line, there was no rule to prevent them from doing what they wanted to do, and the God Clause was there to allow them to do what they wanted to do, so they did it. Those of us who disagree have no real footing for that stand other than emotional ties to the past.
And so it goes.
(RIP Kurt)