As Einstein said, "It's relative."
I don't know about all this. My experience with a 200+ ump Association is that the good guys, experienced, know their stuff, and have all that "game sense".. DO make the tough rules calls. Because they have the experience to do it, and, most important, they have done it before.
I think the poor "no call" is more a matter of inexperience and the pressure of the big game or the situation. AFter a 1000 games... there are tons of situations that I still have NOT had to deal with, or rule on. And when one at a time they pop up.. its hard to react.. second nature.
Especially in amatuer umpiring.. we aint robots (like the A pro level umps) so you can't help but get all types of calls and interps on the exact same scenario. Many of the calls and interps may be technically WRONG, but we all have make wrong judgements in order to accumulate the games that allow us to perfect the right judgement.
[ATTN WW]. Please use this space to submit your BLAST, as the last time I responded early to a thread (Ejections) you ignited! so here [---] OH I CRACK MYSELF UP!!
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