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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
Rubbish. If there is a reason to go for help, you go. If there is not, you don't.
The old "once you make the call, you stick with the call" bullshit ended a long time ago and any umpire who is still hanging on that as a philosophy, then it is absolutely an ego problem. Umpires who carry it into softball should find something else to do, they are not helping themselves or the game.
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Fine, but getting back to the original play (Girardi ejection) and also to the Jim Joyce / Galarraga play -- those are plays where an umpire has no reason to ever ask for help and a manager who demands it should, essentially, be told to go pound sand. Nicely at first, of course.
Has nothing to do with ego.