Unusual dropped third strike

[bkbjones]

Originally Posted by Dakota

You're putting words in my mouth (or out of my keyboard), and that is not remotely close to what I said.

It may not be what you said, but it is what was inferred (at least in my feeble mind, and apparently the mind of others).

The thing that bothers me about this whole thing is that we are putting the onus on the umpires. Is the plural of onus, onuses? We seem to want to take the onus from both offense and defense to know the game situation. (See giving the count, outs and runners to the pitcher in another thread.)

These folks on offense and defense have to be responsible for SOMETHING. 98% of them can't buy a $3.50 indicator and have no freakin clue what the count is, how many outs there are or if the moon is made of blue cheese or swiss cheese.

From the gist of this thread, it appears we have some who want the umpires to bear the entire brunt of all of this. Effem. Anybody who thinks a coach is "stupid" doesn't deserve to be paid to umpire. These folks are smart. And they can bear at least some of the responsibilty of not only knowing the game situation, but coaching their players to know the situation.