What's a rat to do?

[Don Mueller]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

It sounds like he was a pretty gullible umpire to let the fielder talk him into making an out call by rolling the ball to the mound. If the runner were really off the base, the umpire would have called it right away, and not waited for the fielder to trick him.

That fielder would have just gotten a blank, vacuous look from yours truly, and somebody really should go pick up the ball before the runner takes off for third.

How quick we are to throw our own under the bus!

Consider who wrote the OP.

Maybe there was a cloud of dust or the glove was behind the foot and BU was simply delaying his call until he saw the ball in the glove. I know I'M in no hurry to make the call in this situation and maybe BU wasn't either.
Offensive coach however sees the delay as indecisive and from his perspective the BU was tricked or manipulated.
But I will hold out the possibility that the first base coach 95' away had a better look and is looking at it totally impartially.