Pulled Foot - A first

[JRutledge]

Windy,

I realize you do not want to hear this, but in other sports there are many calls you never question. If I call a foul call in basketball, my partner cannot come to me and tell me "it was not a foul." No different than a balk call in baseball or any judgment call. And in basketball we have brain farts and just screw up. But we talk about it after the game, not go and tell them they screwed up then.

I agree if the call is a total misunderstanding of the rules (OBR and FED difference). But to tell us that you are the BU and your partner the PU sees something different, you are going to change that call? Now that is ego run wild. Your partner gets paid too. They are allowed to make judgment calls without your approval. I am not talking about obvious dropped balls on a force play. I am not talking about giving a runner the wrong base on a ball thrown in dead ball territory. I am talking about judgment balk calls or judgment safe/out calls here. All the years I have worked baseball in this state and in this area, I have never heard anyone suggest this is the proper thing to do. If you are teaching all over the country, you surely are not teaching that crap here. Because all the name dropping you have done over this time of year, I have never heard any of them suggest changing a balk call or any call for that matter that is clearly a judgement call.

Just another example of how full of it you are and how your experience does not mean a damn thing to me. Because if that is what they are teaching at that level, I surely want to stay as far away from it as possible.

Peace