Changing a foul ball to fair

[jkumpire]

Originally Posted by jicecone

I am all for getting the call right regardless of some perceived notions of what it may or may not do for your reputation.

In fact, I believe for the rulebook enthusiast, "getting it right" is probably more in line with the rules than maintaining this air of perceived bullcrap that you will be looked at as indecisive, if you change your call.

That to me is more of an EGO and control problem if anything else.

So have at me boys because you have to have balls to umpire and be real good too. Making the right calls when there tough is what your there for. I call that, earning your pay baby.

Don't get me wrong, yes, the idea is to get the call right. The problem here as I see it is that when you kill the ball by calling it foul, the ball is dead. You know, you put your hands up, and yell "Foul", or "Time", or "Dead Ball" or "Pizza's here", whatever you use.

Sorry, it's a judgment call, and they killed the play. You can't unburn the firewood, which is what they did. If the PU did not see the ball, then he should have let the play burn, then talked it over with his partner if they need to. But overturning the foul call violated a basic tenant of umpiring.

I have the guts to make the right call, no matter what when or where; but I also have the guts to eat a call when I am wrong, and take the heat for it, if I can't change it. Do you?