Strike zone

[buckweat]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I would be so shocked that I would be forced to quit umpiring forever! No, really!!

Frankly, I’ll be shocked if I even get a reply to such a silly argument, but if all of those things did come true, why would you even consider giving up such a noble endeavor? All it would mean is that you were mistaken about one small facet of umpiring, not that you were a dangerous idiot who was endangering anyone’s life. Its only a freakin’ game!

Originally Posted by LMan

I'm confident that Mr Wendelstedt will not sanction the 'practice' of calling breaking balls in the dirt strikes, and that refusal to do so is clear evidence of cowardice

I didn’t ask anything about it being an act of cowardice because I think that’s just flat silly. There’s a difference between cowardice and just going along with what you’ve been conditioned to do. The only cowardice would be to not change one’s way of doing something once they’ve been presented with overwhelming evidence that the way they were doing it was incorrect.