Screened on the line

[nickrego]

This is not just a one man crew problem.

Lets say you have a two man crew with runners on.

The same blooper gets hit up the 1st base line. The BU is responsible for Tag-Ups, not Fair / Foul or Catch / No-Catch. He may not be able to see it depending on where the runners are. Just a runner at 1st, yeah, he will probably see it. Runners on 2nd and 3rd, he better have his back to it. Your still all alone.

Two many times I see umpires working in a multi-man crew expecting their partner to be able to make their call. More umpires means we each keep track of less, not that you now have more umpires looking at everything.

In a multi-man crew, we each have our own jobs to do, and events to watch. Sometimes we get lucky and our partner just happened to see more than he was responsible for and we can get help. But don’t rely on that.

Hey HHH, I think there is an idea for an article here. (private joke from McGriff’s forum)