Umpires are getting to robotic..

[kcg NC2Ablu]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

What the hell does that have to do with my point? Obviously I included a range of baseball umpires from HS to MLB .. so there is nothing in that range of umpires that would indicate that I was only talking about the best. I was talking about any competent baseball umpire.

My point was if you are sitting there drooling into your potato chips because you just cant figure out if a baseball umpire is calling strikes or balls, you should not be anywhere near any diamond. Their signals are not confusing. No umpire should have any trouble working with an umpire using various calls as part of their plate work.

Likewise, softball signals are not confusing. Some are robotic.. but when they eventually make them, you understand it just fine.

Have you seen tim McClelland work? it takes him like till the 9th inning to call the strike from the 1st inning on the 1st batter.... just bc they dont have mics on ALL the umpires at the NCAA regionals and supers doesnt mean that people don know what they called. the announcers are GARBAGE they dont even know they are at a softball game half the time. As softball umpires we call in the down posistion pop up ... signal ... take a step back. What about the guys who work scissors with a point for a strike in MLB... they take just as long or longer to signal... o WAIT they signal and VERBALIZE at the same time so really they take longer....