Is this too much to discuss?

[cmcallm]

With regard to the "seeing something and not knowing what it was, and filing it away for future reference" - this is exactly where this kind of forum is valuable. Talk that "odd" situation over with every umpire you know, and discuss how each of you would have handled it. Then it becomes a SHARED learning experience, and MANY umpires become familiar with it - not just the two guys who were there. Then we all get better faster.