Do you have THIS on the ipod?

Mr. Trololo original upload - YouTube

My original post was obtained from what David Shuster of 670 WSCR Radio had said during one of his news breaks this afternoon. He led off the news with this comment: "Major League Baseball has suspended Umpire Crew Chief Fieldin Culbreth and his crew for 2 games for...". Thanks for pointing out that that wasn't completely accurate.

Fielden Culbreth has been suspended for two games. Pretty simple rule. Should have known the rule at that level.

You are totally correct and I was smoking something this morning. Sometimes it pays to put the brain in gear before opening the mouth.

Joe Maddon got away with almost this
 

I wonder if the umpires were remembering this 2011 play, which resulted in 3.05(d).

well and we're not talking about just one umpire here - they should all be suspended - the whole crew. That rule has been the same forever and is that way at all levels if i recall correctly.

Thanks
DAvid

I know what that means...that he was following MLB's directive that no umpire talks to the media about a protested call.

You, OTOH...

Interesting. I had no idea this rule existed. If this had happened to me in a game, I wouldn't think twice, since the pitcher had already met his obligation by pitching in the previous inning(s).

That said, I doubt 3.05(d) has filtered down to lower levels.

In MLB, once a manager says he wants to protest, the umpires have to meet and make sure that they are correct in their rule interpretation/application (in this case, they were way off), then the CC has to contact official scorekeeper and explain the situation (thus the phone call) to log the protest. Doing that, the CC comes onto the field, faces the press boxes and makes the "P" sign to declare the game is under protest.

If this were a playoff or world series game, that phone call would have been to the MLB representative for verification, then the official scorekeeper would be notified.

It should have filtered down to every league who uses "OBR, except ..." rules.

It's also an NCAA rule -- I had to enforce it last weekend, and it almost came up in a conference tournament game this weekend. Turns out the (new) defensive coach had made a "projected" substitution, so th eoriginal starter was already out of the game when he crossed the foul line.

He can recite the rule in question to the pool reporter, the mechanics with regard to the incident in question, he can leave that to the report. Frankly, I could care less if he didn't know the rule. An umpire once in his career is entitled to forget a rule or a ball-strike count, it happens. When you try to hide from it right after the game, you turn a bad situation and make it worse.