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Originally Posted by chuck chopper
Around here if BOTH Umpires couldn't get it correct, you should have protested. (Which costs 50$). Then you would contact your League Commissioner after the game. The Commissioner would then contact the UIC (assigner). The UIC cannot possibly take calls directly from all the various leagues we handle at a Manager/Coach level.
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To start, anyone who charges for a protest should be castrated.
As an umpire, when it got an attitude that they thought they "knew" the rule, I would actually suggest they file a protest.
I tell umpires to not fear a protest, it has a valid position in the officiating of a game. And if one does fear a protest, that may validate the reason a protest occurred since you are not confident of your rules knowledge.
But the one thing I do guarantee umpires is that if they do lose a protest and they are real umpires, they will never miss that ruling again.