Positions B and C

[JRutledge]

Baseball is one of the easiest sport to navigate from an officiating standpoint and we have people that claim one way is so terrible than the other. My God, we are talking about standing in a certain place for a short period of time. How hard can it be? If you do not like where you stand, stand somewhere else. All I need to know as your partner is what you are going to cover and when. The NF mechanics are the very basic so that those that did not go to pro school and debate all the possibilities can happen on a baseball field. In Illinois we use mostly NF mechanics with some modifications. It is not that hard to adjust to or deal with. Half the time I do not know if I am using a "NF" mechanic or an "NCAA" mechanic. I stand where I am told and I hustle to where I need to be. After all where you start has little or nothing to do with where you will end up.

The responses on this topic just goes to show that baseball umpires have too much time on their hands and worry about things that really are not that serious to worry about.

Peace