[Tim C]

Kyle:

This is not about "slug" PU's who don't move out from behind the dish. We have all worked with those guys.

This has everything to do about the BU doing his job and owing the responsibility of HIS calls.

Jerry and I both freely admit to being "old school" and working hard to have our own view of the issues on this call.

I can go on-and-on about the history of two man mechanics (and most likely will in another thread one day) but what we want is for your side to recognize that HARD WORK by the BU can also take care of this issue.

As stated above I worked for more than three decades up upper level ball and never had the need to ask on the pulled foot or sweep tag at first base. My feeling is that the BU owns the call and needs to make that call.

I attended Brinkman twice, extended Spring Training once, Four Multiple Day Pro Clinics, a half dozen One Day Classes taught by MLB Umpires and those classes have ALWAYS taught, "live with your own call!"

I respect your right to use the PU if you feel necessay but I also contend that an experienced BU should never be in the position to even need to ask.

Kyle, some of us old hides are hard to change. We believe that if a play is made and nothing "strange" happens (i.e. the throw pulls a fielder off the base during a force-out, etc.) that calls really make themselves . . .

I think what I am asking is that you recognize the passion that Jerry and I feel in an umpire working hard enough to insure that he can own his own call.