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The Plate Conference
Your original post indicates that for earlier games the Tornament Director told the managers "that any ball that rolls under fence, have fielder hold up hands, BU will go out to see..." I think that with temporary fences that seem ideal for a ball to scoot under that you should bring this up at the plate conference. The fielders "putting their hands up" does not eliminate the need for the umpire crew to get this "right". The appearance is that either BU or PU (depending on your mechanics) actually made a ruling, not the players.
As far as for comments on whether you and your partner had an "attitude" I'll leave that to you to decide but I think after ten years of officiating that I would say that good umpiring is one part HUSTLE, one part KNOWING THE RULES, and one part INTERPERSONAL SKILLS.
Jim / NYC
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