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Originally Posted by ozzy6900
Well, DiMuro had 2 problems:
- He was moving (as was previously stated) when he should have been set to see the catch
- He got straight lined by the guy in the green shirt who pointed at the guy with the ball.
There is no way DiMuro could have seen the ball fall out of the glove with that guy in the way. |
I think MOST of us who are not on TV would not be making a call until we saw ball. How many times do our clinics drill into our heads - "no ball, no call" or "don't guess an out".
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All of that said, I love the way amateur umpires take pleasure in berating a professional umpire. Maybe it's because DiMuro made it and you didn't?
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I do think there's an element of that in this. But it seems to me, from watching MLB and MiLB or NCAA ball, that the mistakes due to poor mechanics are more prevalent at MLB. I think it's possible if not probable that these guys don't attend clinics with the frequency that lower level umpires do - they are not driven to improve like guys at lower levels are - and they are less likely to adapt to new mechanics. Why? Cause they don't have to. Who's going to hold a clinic that these guys can learn from? No one. Also, when you're driven, and watched, and graded, you tend to focus on the mechanics, study up on new ones, etc. I don't say this to knock on these guys who have surpassed what 99.99% of us could ever hope for. But there HAS to be some sort of complacency setting in for those that are there and have lost "the eye of the tiger" for want of a better phrase. Otherwise, mechanic issues would NEVER pop up for these guys. And they do.
(All that said... I think it's VASTLY more common that a simple error in judgement comes from MiLB or NCAA ball vs MLB.)