2 Mechanics Questions

[johnnyg08]

Personally, I like the point as well so people don't confuse it with an out signal on a dropped third...however, at a clinic I attended last night, they didn't teach it that way. I wasn't going to argue with them and they weren't necessarily looking to be "right" either. The instructors were some of the state's clinicians and umpires. If a new umpire used what they learned at the clinic, they'll do fine. If a veteran ump has something that works and makes sense, they were cool with that too...but since they were instructing a bunch of people they asked us to do it their way last night which made sense too.