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Old Thu Aug 23, 2007, 08:07pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by canadaump6
He then told me that I should say something if I feel the lightening is bad enough to suspend the game. I told him no, that is not the way it is done. The base umpire has nothing to say about weather or darkness. But I decided to follow his directions as he is crew chief.
So you saw lightning, he didn't, and you didn't step up to say the game should be suspended?

Not sure about Canada, but in the US, if this happened, you'd get sued for negligence, and you'd probably lose.
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