[jkumpire]

Get the Call Right (Headline of first page of NFHS Baseball Guide, done by Referee Magazine {add your own opinion here})

"For years, umpires at all levels were told to make the calls that belonged to them without getting help. That philosophy is outdated and must be discarded. (my emphasis). The new umpires manual has included four paragraphs on the importance of getting the call right."

Comments?

(IMO, this is awful. The rest of the article backtracks on this saying, talking about what situations we should get help on, and which we should not get help on. The end of the article has plays that any crew with any sense would ask for help on before this new "philosophy" was made.

I am sorry, the old philosophy was better. Take care of your own business is the right attitude for working a baseball game. Go to your partner is what you should do if you are not sure about a call, but that should happen at most once every two or three seasons. The constant crew meetings to make calls is not a good idea. Make your call, stick with it, and if you are not sure, then ask for help. But it had better be very infrequent)