NYY Girardi Tossed

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Originally Posted by Manny A

It has nothing to do with ego. It's all about taking sole responsibility for certain situations, which has been ingrained in these guys from when the started umpiring. You open the door by going for help once, you'll subject yourself to repeated demands to check with your partner(s). That's more disruptive to the game.

Rubbish. If there is a reason to go for help, you go. If there is not, you don't.

The old "once you make the call, you stick with the call" bullshit ended a long time ago and any umpire who is still hanging on that as a philosophy, then it is absolutely an ego problem. Umpires who carry it into softball should find something else to do, they are not helping themselves or the game.