My zone got stuck.

[Bfair]

Originally posted by mick


Have you ever been 'Stuck' in a place and totally unable to escape? It felt really weird.

mick

Mick, early in my umpiring career I chose to stick myself into calling a poor zone because I didn't want to admit that I had blown a couple of low pitches early in the game. I made those pitches the same the entire game. While I was consistent, I was consistently crappy by my accepted standards (and likely by the teams' opinions). I left the field knowing I had been consistent but that I had called a poor game.

I quickly learned to put a couple of bad calls behind me and recover by calling a good zone for the balance of the game---even if the good zone isn't consistent with the pitches that I'm aware that I've blown.
Consistently crappy is not my style...........

Consistency is not only within a game, but it's from game to game.
So I'd ask you here.....were you consistent from game to game?
Was your zone this day the same that you normally do and that which teams who know you have come to expect?

We all blow pitches occasionally---some more frequent than others.
Get over it, do your game, and build your consistent reputation.
Be the ump they've grown to know.............


Just my opinion,

Freix