[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Say what?

According to the game report, the problem was that there were TWO first calls. Cousins on 2B called Youkilis safe. Carlson on 3B called him out. That's why they got together.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270830110

I'm guessing that the MLB approach is to not signal safe when a close pay happens on a tag where the tag is missed. If in fact this approach does exist, then at least the story would include the Us mentioning the safe called from U2 is for the missed tag and U3 signalled out for leaving the basepath.

As it was, Francona was upset that U3 didn't have as good a look, in his opinion. He likely knows little about mechanics, so his claim has backbone only if he got lucky.

I'm guessing that since the play is going to 3B, the call is U3's. Why then did U2 make a call? I bet Cousins, U2, got the crew together and led the crew into reversing his crap call.