The phantom out (Expected call)

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by pdxblue

Wow! If you were my partner, I would chew YOUR ***!

As I moved up into the college ranks, I found a much higher appreciation for making the RIGHT call, even when it isn't popular!

A no tag is a no tag! There is no "expected call", and I agree that it is lazy man's baseball to call it any other way! Be a man and make the right call!

First, if you were my partner, and chewed my senior, much more experienced a$$, I would proceed to kick yours, and we would see who's a man. In fact if any umpire deemed to "chew my a$$," they would find themselves laid out very quickly.

I ain't on my first rodeo. I have many years of good, solid experience, and I know how that call is made at the highest level of baseball, and that is how I call it too. When the ball beats the runner by a half-mile, the call that every coach I know of wants made is "out." That is the "accepted" call, as well as the "expected" call in the big leagues, so what makes it any different at lower levels? It is different on a fairly close play, or a banger, naturally. In these cases, reward the runner for his outstanding slide. But not when he's thrown out by 20 feet.