What I learned this week (Part 2)

[DownTownTonyBrown]

Originally posted by Tim C
...I think I totally screwed up in letting my partner CONTINUE to make calls that appaeared to be incorrect . . . yet if I would have involved myself I would be posting that I stuck my nose where it didn't belong.

I think you did just fine, Tim and wouldn't have expected anything else. They weren't your calls to correct. Despite catching his eye, your partner never asked for help. But because there was eye contact made, he should have known that you had additional information.

I refer to your earlier premises
...I have always intoned that not only does no umpire have the legal right to overrule a partner's call. I have also questioned "what makes what YOU saw more correct than what your partner saw (called)?"

If you had gotten involved in any different manner, there likely would have been two poor looking officials instead of just one... perhaps some ejections... perhaps that police escort.

In any call that is potentially controversial in my mind, and for which I'm not contentedly confident, my first act is to find my partner and make that very eye contact to which you spoke. If my partner is not looking at me, I'm on my own. If eye contact is made, I know in that brief tenth of a second that he has some information for me. Now I decide, ask him, or make the call.

Last game on the plate for this gentleman and what you describe as several blatantly wrong calls, perhaps he was just trying to make some final points to a certain coach. Who knows? Stranger things have happened.