pulled foot at 1st - getting help

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Originally posted by Jim Mills

On an evaluation I received in a game where I went for help, I was criticized, not congratulated, for it. The post-mortem was "If you have to go for help, o.k., but where you really want to be as an umpire is to NOT have to go for help, and nailing the call anyway. Getting it right with help is always a poor relation to getting it right on your own."

And I can imagine what your evaluation would have been if you had not gone for help, was therefore wrong in your "guess" about the foot (since you apparently weren't sure if F3 held the base), and most others with better angles, including your evaluators, were well aware of seeing F3 stretching off the base by perhaps 6 inches............

It's a Catch 22, and the I feel there's no dignity in making a call that can be obviously wrong to many when the correct answer is readily available if I choose to seek it. I can't comment on pro vs. amateur in a 2-man system since I've never seen a 2-man pro crew. Still, I doubt if pros have dignity in making an obviously wrong call. If not seeking help and booting the call means looking professional, then I prefer to look amateurish and get the call right for the very few times the situation arises.


Just my opinion,

Freix