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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Decorum. How many times do you have outfielders just screaming and hollering to appeal this, check that, etc.? Neither umpires or players need to be screaming, and possibly being misunderstood, things across a big field.
Used to be a joke in some schools that if you have an OF with the right appeal an no IF was smart enough to pick up on it, the umpire should continually put hand to ear and scream what until the OF came in so far that you could consider him/her an IF and take the appeal.  |
Or, even simpler, just ask the nearest infielder, "What'd s/he say?"