Obstruction --- Debate #1,264,894

[WestMichBlue]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

You are saying that I made a good call here?

I not only agree with your call; I complement you on being in great position to make the call.

I am tired of umpires being soft of defensive players. From a coaches view, defenders should be taught to set up to receive a throw on the side of the base from which the throw is coming. Then runners will react and go to the opposite side. (But they have all of the base to slide towards.)

Because you are still outside, and because of the angle of the defender's glove, I assume the throw is coming from the infield, or at least the right side of the field. The defender should have been positioned to the right of the base.

Why make excuses for her? She took away the runner's options. The runner may have decided to slide straight into the bag, but we don't know that. What we do know is that her options were taken away from her by a defender in the wrong position.

Let's put steel spikes on all these girls and see how long it takes for them to learn how to execute a tag play correctly.

WMB