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explanations
How often do you add an "explanation" to a safe or out call. I'm talking about saying something like "under" if a girl slid under the tag on a close play or some other such embelishment on a play that you clearly saw but everyone else may not have.
Case in point. Last night I was plate. Visitors were down 10-3 in the 7th. They manage to shave it to 10-7 but now they have 2 outs and a very slow runner on 2nd. Routine hit to the outfield and 3rd base coach (unexplainably) waves the girl from second in. She lumbers home and does a poor, fall down slide with her lead foot missing the side of the plate by 2-3 inches. Her other foot never quite makes it to the plate as the catcher makes a leaping catch toward the first base side, swings around, and essentially falls on the runner. Tag was made. Foot never reached home. I sell the out.
Visitor coaches and fans go beserk. "I saw her foot touch from here!" everyone and their mother says. Arms are flailling. Players are sceaming. As I try to explain to the the now out runner that the tag came before the foot ever got there, I hear the visiting coach give the old "you can't take it away from the girls" cry. I say to myself nothing is going to satisfy them (I've dealt with these guys many times before. This game is over, get off the field. Nothing is going to be gained by staying.
As I changed for the next game I thought was an exlanation in order? Would I have thought differently if the coaches wouldn't have went nuts? Just how much of an explanation is needed in this or any situation?
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