The Next Generation of Pros

[WhatWuzThatBlue]

From the limited wisdom of Rut...

"When I call things in football and basketball, I have to see the play, decide if there was a foul, decide if their was some advantage, protect the safety of the players, then after all that has gone through my head, make a call. All I have to do is decide if the ball crossed the strike zone on a pitch that is caught over the plate. Yeah, really hard."

I guess he has never seen a collision at the plate with the ball game on the line. That's much easier than, say, a roughing the passer or flagrant foul in football.

In baseball, I only have to worry about the running lane, the proper angle, whether the ball is held and a tag is applied (sometimes while straightlined) and if the runner tagged the plate. Then I have to decide which occured first and make the PROPER call.

I couldn't stop laughing when you wrote that you have to protect the safety of the players during an active play. How do you do that, perhaps you have forcefield powers???
LMAO