Infield Fly Call

[mbyron]

Both umpires have concurrent responsibility for infield fly, so either may call it. Once you judge it's an IFF, call it.

Jim Evans likes to ask umpires like your smitty/charlie partner: "Do you have 30 years' experience, or one year's experience 30 times?"

[mcrowder]

As said earlier, either umpire can and should call this.

It has been my experience, however, that if anyone "owns" this call, it is PU, not BU.

[RPatrino]

SM, you did good!!! I applaud your restraint in not blasting that moron partner of yours. Don't let a dufus like that discourage you, keep plugging away!!

I'm not a 30 year umpire, but I'm not a rookie. I tell my partner's in our pre-game, don't come in and talk to me during the game!! We have some chatter box guys in our association who love to spend time just chatting away, and I find that looks awful as well as it breaks my focus during the game. If there is something VERY IMPORTANT that you need to communicate with me, then signal me and we can meet between innings.

I once had a very "big dog" call time in the middle of an inning, to tell a member of our 3 man crew that he blew a coverage. That is a NO NO in my book, and I have not worked with that man since, and that occured in 1999.

[Thatballzlow]

I apologize, but after 11 years in the minors, I wouldn't have had the restraint to wait till the locker room. I would have said, "Look, if you want to make your call, don't sit around and wait by the phone...pick the goddamn thing up and make it." Of course, it would have been with "all due respect" LOL...

PS...you partner was wrong...he had 30 years of inexperience...and he's got no balls.

I heard he's in Fresno tonight working AAA...JUST KIDDING JUST KIDDING

Thatballzreallylow