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Old Wed May 28, 2008, 09:51pm
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Get the call right

On judgment calls when working baseball on the plate or bases, I see the play, make my judgment and then announce the results. Occasionally my judgment will be incorrect.

I do not announce, I take that back, the runner touched the base two milliseconds before F/3 possessed the ball.

I made my judgment, announced it and move on.

Occasionally ... immediately and before I make a judgment I will ask my partner very loud "was he on the base or was there a tag (on pulled foot or swipe tag).
I receive an answer, typically yes/no he was/wasn't or yes/no on the tag.
I then make my judgment and announce it. It works pretty good.

Reading posts on nearly every subject people are constantly injecting the advice "get the call right".

I would think everyone's intention is to get the call right from the beginning.
The constant advice of "get the call right" always makes me wonder why people automatically assume most umpires intentions are anything but getting the call right.

Getting the rules right is a different subject. Getting the call right is probably everyones goal.

Every rule book I read says " judgment calls are final".

Nowhere have I found in the rules anything pertaining to "all judgment calls are final, unless someone wants you to reconsider and/or get additional input after the fact so your judgment jives with what others want"

Can anyone provide me a rule citation that permits changing judgment calls?

My intention is always to make the correct judgment and after I know I missed one, I analyze what I probably did wrong and make a good effort to not do it again.

My rant is over .... and that is final.
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