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Coachtindell
Although you have yet to answer my questions,I will attempt to make you understand my point.While defined in the rule book,an umpire has his "own" zone which they call within those rules.We are able to stretch a zone in lower levels to its limits and tighten that zone in a college game.Have you ever watched a Major League Baseball Game? If a pitch is called a strike above the belt,who do you think goes crazy? The coach in the dugout of course! That is the accepted height in that level of ball which of course is not the rule book strike zone.I think you are dwelling far too much on the umpire during your games.As a high school catcher,I was taught to respect the men in blue and have my pitcher pitch to THEIR zone.After a half inning I would have a pretty good idea where his zone was.As a youth baseball coach,I employed that same philosiphy.I taught my kids that an umpire does not determine the outcome of a game,they do!Unless everyone on the team played an errorless game in the field,batted 3 for 3,threw every pitch to their intended target,and ran the bases perfectly,then and only then might an umpires call affect the outcome of the game.Hopefully all coaches would preach that,but that is another story in sportsmanship.
Jeff
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