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Old Wed Apr 15, 2015, 11:03am
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Originally Posted by Robert E. Harrison View Post
I think all would agree that baseball training indicates the importance of calls and touching a base is way down the list compared to fair/foul, catch/no catch. As a team, umpires are responsible to get the call right, not tell the coach, "He was watching the runner touch 1st" or "My partner is no help".
Want me to tell you what happened with a pro manager? I had the touch of first. I had no help for my partner. Yet he came to me and overturned the call from foul to a home run. The DC then appealed first, thinking that I provided the info to overturn. Shitstorm ensues.
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