Legal Tag?

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by WhatWuzThatBlue

Fair enough...you and a few others would be making a bad call, but it's your call to make.

The rule book is abundantly clear about what constitutes an out by tag. This is not one of them.

Correct, although if you are the umpire who makes the obvious call, and goes by things such as the tag was down, etc... then he's out.

Not bashing that form of umpiring, although I don't agree with it.

TECHNICALLY, he's safe, based off the definition of the tag I outlined above

[Carbide Keyman]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

Correct, although if you are the umpire who makes the obvious call, and goes by things such as the tag was down, etc... then he's out.

Not bashing that form of umpiring, although I don't agree with it.

TECHNICALLY, he's safe, based off the definition of the tag I outlined above

Depends on how "obvious" it is, and how much of a sh!tstorm you want to endure, I guess



Doug

[nickrego]

Call the out.

It's like not calling a pitch that passes through the strike zone, but gets past the catcher and ends up at the backstop a strike. Everybody thinks its a ball, so we call it a ball.

Same thing here. Everybody thinks its an out, so call it an out. You will see this type of tag many more times in your career.

[LMan]

Originally Posted by nickrego

Call the out.

It's like not calling a pitch that passes through the strike zone, but gets past the catcher and ends up at the backstop a strike. Everybody thinks its a ball, so we call it a ball.

Same thing here. Everybody thinks its an out, so call it an out. You will see this type of tag many more times in your career.

Oh thanks, nick, you just summoned the 'spirit of NIUmp50' to come and dispute you

[NIump50]

Originally Posted by LMan

Oh thanks, nick, you just summoned the 'spirit of NIUmp50' to come and dispute you

Dispute him, why would I dispute him? I totally agree with everything he said.
Sorry Nick, I know this puts you in a terrible spot.

RE: the strike issue
he said it the way it is, I'm in total agreement as to why such 'strikes' are called 'balls' I simply disagree with the reasoning.

Re: the legal tag

I'm in total agreement with nick
I stated very early in this thread, knowing it was not a textbook tag, that as long as there was no separation between ball and glove I had an out because I knew I could sell it and it was expected.

I admit, I'm a ho'
I'll take the strike or out when it is expected and I'll take the strike or out when it's textbook.

[nickrego]

Originally Posted by NIump50

RE: the strike issue
he said it the way it is, I'm in total agreement as to why such 'strikes' are called 'balls' I simply disagree with the reasoning.

Actually, I also disagree with why we sometimes don't call a strike, that is a strike. But I do it because it is part of my job description, and, it makes my games go sooooooooo much smoother. "So, giv'em what they want, even if it kills them." As the tobacco industry would say.