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Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)
In regard to the issue about the announcers saying "interfered" instead of "obstructed" - I'm with Rich. Anyone who thins the announcers have the first clue about the actual rules (with the possible exception of Steve Stone & 1 or 2 others) is delusional. If an umpire says "interfere" instead of "obstruct", then there's an issue. Otherwise, so what.
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I couldn't care less what annoucers say. I live with listening to Mike Shannon on the radio, so my announcer's knowledge of the rules are a bit low.
That said, the issue most umpires have is that the annoucers spend so much time talking about how bad the umpires are. "Horrible call! What was he thinking?!" is the best you can hear. Then, when the replays show that the umpire was correct, all we get is a "Oh. He was safe." Not one mention of how well the umpire made the call, or how well the rules were applied -- without the use of a rule book at the time.
Then, annoucers confuse things like INT and OBS. They don't know the IFF rule. They don't understand balks, awarding of bases, catches, or even fair/foul calls. Many times, they want the umpires to make their calls based on the situation; other times, they
think the umpire did and blast them for it. They imply the umpires are calling things for one team, but not the other. Obviously, almost all of it is only to argue that the call was wrong for their team.
For someone that gets paid to know the game, they know very little about the rules. Then, they blast the ones that do.