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Originally Posted by MrUmpire
No mention of R3 leaving early. Appealing something you know didn't happen is the Rat approach. If that is normal for you, enough said.
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The rat approach is appealing it and then complaining about how the umpires weren't watching the tag up since they "missed" the call.
I've never been a coach, but I guarantee this -- if I ever do coach, I *will* watch to see if a base umpire watches touches of bases and if he doesn't do his job (as so many around me where I live don't) I would appeal missed bases all day. It's one of my pet peeves with other umpires and I secretly hope coaches appeal on these guys cause maybe it would drive home how important it is to look at the touches of bases.