Standing in A, home plate umpire comes to you for a check swing on a lefty. :eek:

This isn't unusual or particularly difficult.

Correct. And neither is responding from B or C unusual or particularly difficult.

That's SOP in NCAA 3-person starting now, if the other umpire is in the middle.

I thought the thread was what each person found difficult for them. I didn't get the idea that it was up for debate. I don't find any of the sitches in the whole BU thread difficult, which is why I didn't have anything to add. But, apparently blueump finds it difficult.

The :eek: emoticon made it sound like it was hard for him or that it was just a terrible situation or something.

Why? It's actually quite easy -- if I judge the batter offered, I say so when I'm asked. If I don't think he offered, I say so when I'm asked.

What's worse is the FED umpire who refuses to ask because the book allows him to refuse. Just ask already.

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Guess you don't understand the rule.

JJ outed me earlier.

The pick-off at first from "B" is an easy call.

It is easy only because the runner has to be really, really out before I call the "OUT!"

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Thank you. And what's the worst thing that can happen? You get a strike out of it and it's your partner's fault. Always ask.

That was my point. I find it easy, you find it easy, almost all God's children find it easy. However, blueump finds it difficult, and I believe the thread wasn't intended to be a debate about who thinks what is easy or hard, just what each umpire found to be the most difficult to them.

Steve, are you implying that there are rules on an internet umpire forum?

Silly Rabbit.

Exclusively... yup, you know me. Such a bold statement, way more bolder than the one you made :rolleyes:

No, I'm just saying that I could have responded "not that difficult" to every single post in the thread, but thought that would not be in keeping with the spirit of the thread.;)

Dumping someone for ragging on the PU after he\'s missed three safe/out calls, a fair/foul call, about 10 pitches, and then doesn\'t himself run the rat who yells "YOU SUCK!" at him.