Infield Fly

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by UmpJM (nee CoachJM)

mbcrowder,

WTF are you talking about?

Cite, please. I must have missed that part.

JM

Huh? I know you've been around when we discussed this before. Besides, what are you going to do in this particular sitch - yell out after he's said IFF, "No, No, it's Infield Fly if Fair!!!" Rulebook says not to overrule partner's call. He made the IFF call, it's his call.

Fixing the misapplied RULE, however, is either umpire's duty.

[PeteBooth]

if you have a hard a** for a partner you DO NOT get into a pi****g match on the field.

Let the manager do "his" job and protest the call (if the league has protest procedures in place) If they do not, have a post game in the parking lot.

if this "clown" doesn't KNOW the IFR then make certain you do not work with him again as there are other rules which are way more complicated then the IFR.

In a nutshell you DO NOT get into an argument with your partner on the field.

Pete Booth

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Rulebook says not to overrule partner's call. He made the IFF call, it's his call.

Fixing the misapplied RULE, however, is either umpire's duty.

The fact that he made an IFF call is neither here nor there. The fact that he called an out for IFF on a foul ball is the problem, and I agree with your last statement. This needs to be fixed.