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Originally Posted by bluejay
How about your second sentence where you said "You can't tell us you didn't have time to get any where" I guess you never got blocked out so you wouldn't understand. Now I'm being critical. Look what you started!!
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If I have NEVER been blocked, then (2) would be unnecessary advice.
However, the OP said he didn't have time to move, yet the BR moved into his way at the running lane, which starts 30 feet away. That's plenty of time to move SOMEwhere --- just gotta make sure that somewhere is productive. And with BR inside and appearing to move toward the line, a step or so outside probably would have made this call easier for him.
However ... if ANY of that was "critical", well - as umpires I'd expect most of us to have at least a LITTLE thicker skin than that. It wasn't intended to be critical - it was intended to answer the question. Move first, call with the info you have if necessary. Pretty straightforward, and I'm still not sure what advice would have managed to be non-critical.
If he wanted someone to say, "Call fair when in doubt" or "Call foul when in doubt" - either of those are bad advice, he's not going to get either of those suggestions here.