My 2015 Umpiring Resolutions

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Originally Posted by AtlUmpSteve

#4 suggests to me your recent clinic may have been in OC; that's one of Willie's favorites (of course, he may have been your clinician elsewhere). Or his term has caught on with others, I suppose.

You are 100% accurate. Willie Newman was my evaluator at a camp here in Phoenix this fall. He might emphasize ball status a lot more than some other people, but he was right: I was taking my eyes (and mind) out of a potentially live situation. In a lot of years of umpiring, no one had ever pointed that out as clearly as he did. Something to work on...