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Originally Posted by Andy
We have a pitch to start every play. A catcher shrugging her shoulders in response to her coach could be interpreted as her disagreement with the PU's pitch call and it could lead down the path of attempting to show up the umpire. I think I have said this twice before, so one more time may or may not help make my point. Since we have a pitch to start every play, if the catcher, and/or the coach, starts thinking that the umpires strike zone is terrible, they now have something to complain about almost constantly. The situation can only go downhill from there.
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I hear you, but I guess to my mind there's a huge gulf between a catcher who disagrees with a single call and one who thinks and acts like the umpire's zone is terrible. And potential "could be" disagreement number one (unvocalized, even) is not the place to head it off.