How to not sell a call...

[Dakota]

Game ending very close play at the plate. Big controversy rages days later.

I don't want to start a thread here on whether or not the call was correct (plenty of that on the baseball board), but to note the umpire's mechanics.

Assume the call was correct (runner touched the plate). He could have significantly diffused the controversy by two simple things:

1) Not wait so long for the call, and
2) SELL the call instead of the nonchalant "safe" signal.

Comments? View the clip below.

http://menotomyjournal.com/mlbvids/col.wmv

PS: I don't want to hear about OBS - this was MLB.