Gray Area Strikes

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Originally Posted by Bob Bainter

Best piece of advice I ever heard in the minor leagues was from Dan Rohn, who was a manager in the Mariners organization...

"Nobody ever complains with an umpire who calls strikes...just the ones who say "ball" all the time..."

Don't believe I saw big Dan taking out any ads in the paper with his advice to you, backing up Eric Gregg (God rest his soul) when he was crucified for calling strikes in the 1997 playoffs. Also, I believe if you check an old web site that SDS once posted http.//cascreamindude.livejournal.com/ on a guy that keeps the records of all the MLBU ejections, you will not find too many ejections over umpires calling a pitch a ball. The majority of the ejections came over pitches that the umpire called a strike.