asking for help from ump behind mound on check swing

[Baseball_North]

One of my pet peeves of watching MLB games on TV is the analysis of the check swing.

Here in Toronto, ex-Blue Jay pitcher, Tom Cerutti is our colour man on Sportsnet (who covers most of the Jays' games). Usually when there is a questionable check swing call, they will go to a side-angled camera, to attempt to show the bat crossing the plate.

And he always says... "that was the right call by the 1st base umpire, (enter umpire's name), as the bat head did cross the front of the plate." .... or vise versa

I know there a lot of "myths" such as "hands are part of the bat", etc.... but this one really gets to me.

I try to tell everyone on my team when I'm playing.... you either

(a) offer at the pitch (and therefore swing)
or
(b) don't offer at the pitch (and therefore don't swing)

Maybe that is the problem that the original poster of this thread is having.

From P2 or P3 (I think in the states, you guys refer to them as B and C positions), it would be harder to see if the bat crossed the plate. But if wouldn't be harder to see if the batter offered at the pitch or not.

Maybe this is the problem.