I had to tell one of my players to lie

[kylejt]

I'm missing something here.

Why on Earth would I, as the PU, ask the batter where he thought the pitch was that got him kayed? Yeah, yeah, he's your catcher the next half inning, which is all the more reason not to go there. Nothing good can result in that conversation.

Now, a smart catcher will may say something like, "Man, I guess I was too close to the dish on that one", and let that be it. If the PU wants to add some input, then the catcher can agree, and now you've a happy PU. Happy PU's call more strikes with happy catchers. Good catchers know how to "work" umpires, and vice versa.

[TussAgee11]

I'm only going there if either a) F2 goes there or b) I know F2 is going there, and I can deal with it preemptively.

But I'd never take an approach of snapping back unless something very wrong was said. Hey, I asked the question, I better be able to deal with his answer no matter what he says (at least almost everything he could say).