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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
Rei, I can speak for no one but myself.... I have never done anything even close to what you or the OP is saying! Maybe it was my upbringing and the way I was trained but I have enough problems dealing with myself when I blow a call. I could not dream of doing any of this crap!
Maybe I'm old fashioned! Maybe in today's world, you guys do this. Well, not in my world and not on my crew! So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Not me, pal. Not even once.
I've had many opportunities to end crap ballgames and get to my air conditioning and martini, but I never intentionally got a call wrong to do it. I've had borderline pitches that would have walked home the winning run in deep extra innings, and never wavered in my correct strike 3 call.
I call it integrity on the baseball field. People can and have called me "one flaky SOB," along with other not-so-nice remarks over my umpiring "career," but nobody has ever been able to accuse me of any improprieties such as you describe.
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Salute!
I also would never and have never thrown a single call for any reason. I too have way too much respect for the game to do it. Period!
... It's easy to speak for oneself, but to speak for everyone and condemn them in one stroke is pretty risky. Rei should speak for himself.