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Competetive mens league, top of 7, 3-3 score #2 team (home) playing #8 team (visitors) close to the end of the season type game (#2 is trying hard to get to be #1) with no runners on. I am on bases. Lefty at bat (facing the home team dugout(this is relevent! lol) and I am positioned playing back to the grass. Pitch comes in high, I see the batter turn as though he was going to swing, but can't really tell one way or the other if he did swing, so of course my partner steps back and points to me "Did he go?" Having an exceptional view of the number on the batters back I had no idea whatsoever if he went or not, so of course I say "No he did not" making a safe mechanic. Home team bench (there were 4 or 5 of em there) starts going nuts about the call. How could i call that? that's a terrible call!, Am I blind? (in this case, may as well have been) and blah blah blah. I say ok, that's enough, I've heard you but the one player felt the need to continue to expound on the various ways in which my call sucks. Of course they had a perfect view and were maybe 20 feet away while i was at the worst possible angle over 100 feet away, but this player just wouldn't seem to accept this hard cold fact of life.. In a more stern voice now i say, "ok, enough. We are done I don't want to hear any more about it" He finishes off with "you made a terrible call there blue, could have just cost us the game". I had been walking back to the grass ( i had moved in during the discussion to about the bag at first base) I turned around and i actually said "BOOM! you're gone" Didn't even realize i said it that way until after the fact....

Three words - Awesome!

As much as I hate to do it, I have to agree with Hawk here. I don't think he said anything that could really be disputed.

I hope he gets lit up!

I'm going to add it to Little League Umpire training. But just for coaches. (probably bring the anti gun crowd out of the woodwork) :agasp_:

Why make an issue out of a non issue, call the strike, carry on.

Maybe he's just a douche?!?!

The ball cannot be put back in play if the pitcher doesn't have the ball in his possession. See 5.11.

Yeah, but try listening to Suzyn Waldman do Yankee games on the radio. I'll rank them 1A and 1B. Doesn't matter who's A or B. Equally annoying

We need to be more tolerant of Yetis? :nod:

I still see myself calling it a strike. After further reviewing what WUS said, I still really don't have a leg to stand on. HC - He swung! Me - you're right HC - then why isn't it a strike? Me - because an anonymous guy online, who claims to represent W.U.S. said that's how I should rule. Sorry. Not gonna happen until I have something ALOT more solid.

Stay away from "Rug-rat" baseball Pete Booth Why, are you too good to work those games?