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Old Tue Oct 02, 2012, 02:08pm
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This is another reason why a thorough pregame with an unknown partner is valuable. "If you're in the middle I have all the fair/fouls" should let him know he should keep his mouth shut.
In all honesty, this is something I would never cover with my partner during pre-game. It should be common sense that an umpire inside the diamond has ZERO fair/foul responsibility!

The only fair/foul coverage we go over is when the BU is in A.
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Old Tue Oct 02, 2012, 06:55pm
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No Johnny I am not a newer ump, doing this close to 35 years....and the part about a booming voice was to clarify that if I would have called foul the whole park hears it. I pointed fair 3 times emphatically and was shocked to face infield and partner was calling foul back turned to me. And he is not a newbie either, perhaps a brain fart I don't know....and yes I was not very polite to him after the game in parking lot, I think he will remember this conversation for some time.....scathing to say the least.
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