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Old Tue Jun 30, 2015, 11:27am
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yep, the "off the bag" call should only be made if BU actually saw daylight between foot and bag.

I'm at the 3B end of a 3B-HP rundown. As runner dives back to 3B, fielder dives too. I'm at 90 degrees to the play, & clearly see 2" of daylight between glove and foot.

DC (in 1B dugout, so at 3B line extended), absolutely sure of the tag, begs me to check with my partner (at the HP end of the rundown).

Sure I'll ask, coach, but he'll never convince me I didn't see space...
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Old Tue Jun 30, 2015, 11:50am
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yep, the "off the bag" call should only be made if BU actually saw daylight between foot and bag.

I'm at the 3B end of a 3B-HP rundown. As runner dives back to 3B, fielder dives too. I'm at 90 degrees to the play, & clearly see 2" of daylight between glove and foot.

DC (in 1B dugout, so at 3B line extended), absolutely sure of the tag, begs me to check with my partner (at the HP end of the rundown).

Sure I'll ask, coach, but he'll never convince me I didn't see space...
Then you should just told the coach "no", that you had everything you needed to make that call.
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Old Wed Jul 01, 2015, 12:24am
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then you should just told the coach "no", that you had everything you needed to make that call.
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Old Wed Jul 01, 2015, 06:32am
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Yet another example of the benefit of just asking in the first place. Get the call right to begin with and you can likely eliminate all of this nonsense and waste of time.
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Old Wed Jul 01, 2015, 01:55pm
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Lets say F3 did come off the bag, then came back down on it before B/R arrived at 1st base but BU did not see that !. As a base ump if I want help from PU, I would certainly like to know my PU was paying attention & willing to help. (If I ask for it).
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Old Wed Jul 01, 2015, 09:47pm
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Yet another example of the benefit of just asking in the first place. Get the call right to begin with and you can likely eliminate all of this nonsense and waste of time.
Like a broken record with more faults than a blind tennis player.
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Old Thu Jul 02, 2015, 06:56am
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Like a broken record with more faults than a blind tennis player.
What's broken is the mechanic. Consider what happened that lead to this thread. There's something broken here alright...
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Old Thu Jul 02, 2015, 07:01am
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What's broken is the mechanic. Consider what happened that lead to this thread. There's something broken here alright...
What lead to this thread was the OP not knowing he could help with the PF call.
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