Honesty is the best policy?

[GarthB]

Please note:

1. The level of play. Little League majors and below, regular season. Learning baseball.

What's your point? That's the level we allow fans and players to make calls?

2. We're not talking a close play here where the umpire was in position and making the call, or even a play at first being called from the C position. We are discussing a very obvious situation that an umpire missed entirely.

So you can justify this is your mind. At what point can't you justify allowing the crowd to overturn a call? Does it have to be unanimous? What if just one person dissents? Ten, Twenty?

Remember, never does everyone agree on anything.

On my home field, with intra-league teams, Little League majors and below, in THIS situation (long ball over the fence), I am changing my call.

And if I was your assignor, it would be your last call for two weeks.

We expect, at all levels, that umpires work by the rules and standards of practice. I wouldn't know when to again trust an umpire who changed his call because of the crowd's opinion.