Three man question

[Carl Childress]

Originally posted by rex

Regardless of the mistake or what U1 may or may not have seen or thought he saw, to get him out of A or where the ball might end up. Neither the UIC nor U1 saw the interference. U2 followed his instinct to get into a position to cover the field. Unfortunately he saw something that was not covered under instinct. He was in the wrong position to make a judgement call as to witch fielder had the best play on the ball. The question now is not who’s call, but should U2 have made the call anyhow?

rex

AS you know, I am one of the foremost exponents of helping your partner. I do not hold with the modern tendency, picked up from professional graduates who didn't get a contract, of: "He gets his calls, and I get mine."

That being said (as the cliché goes), this is a three-man crew with the UIC (properly) in place and U1 (improperly but in place nevertheless) in place and .... Neither makes a call. I don't think U2 has one chance in a hundred of selling his "interference" call. If he does nothinng, of course, he had made a call, albeit a "no call."

My advice: Leave everything as it is, and chew their rear ends out in the post-game "yelling match."