Mon Mar 31, 2008, 08:46pm
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Originally Posted by UmpireErnie
My reasoning is that the people running the scoreboard are to some extent an extention of the officiating crew, so really I am cleaning up my own mess. What say you, oh sage blues of the board?  |
They will say that this, in so many words, is in the ASA umpire manual. 
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But most of the time I am working of fields without such swank as scoreboards. I do, as a matter of routine, in my usual "patter" behind the plate, say things to the batter and catcher as we set up for the first time during an at bat, "OK, here we go, two down". After that they are on their own.
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me too..
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