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think .44 is best look for whether a slight knee pop, or flinch happened or not. i will defer to bob davidson's good judgment. a flinch is just that and not as easy a call as a falling off the mound etc. easy calls, that even they get missed sometimes. in there with a strike or ball that miss by less than .1 or .01 of an inch. what, you not going to make calls or swallow the whistle. so, nobody's ever called a balk for someone stepping back off the mound or not and the correct call was just the opposit, balk or no balk or other balk moves. let someone who is without a missed balk call, obvious miss or not cast the first baseball. nice get of another possible or not flinch attempt or not situation. you r the best.

they did not block out adam becks game in the WC. so why the 4th. not a good look on this, especially when it can look like there was a certain reason they might have blocked which isn't fair to adam beck(like call ups being picked on by boone). crap happens and you never know when it will happen and it can happen to the best.

@Marcus6 - always appreciate this format provided. scott barry in 2018, bellino 2019, carapazza 2018, cuzzi 2019. will now look for anyone between 2021-2025 to see if there are others, Fairchild 2025, Fletcher 2023, Hoye 2025. and maybe they were in replay (or concussion protocol or injury as you mentioned) and not on the field, but without steve the ump comparison list like the one you showed plus adding the replay guys who knows. all the above are from retrosheet and being on the field. retrosheet does not supply replay officials for each special event, post season. bacchus, barksdale, beck in replay for lcs https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/bill-miller-and-mark-wegner-will-be-lcs-umpire-crew-chiefs/ar-AA2e0KFu?ocid=BingNewsSerp

without them throwing it to first and tagging him before he gets back, we will never know. and no i am not going with the point, i just saw delauter pick up the pace going back a little like trying to downplay he knows he did, without trying to be noticed. like i said, with no play we do not know if someone saw a flinch or shoulder move, etc. or not. either way is fine with me in my rocking chair. And a question. maybe i am flinching, but for you or Marcus. I am not seeing either of the National League games Sunday October 4, 2026 in Milwaukee or in LA with the ump scorecards statistics on that game 2 for both teams in the division series. Were those games somehow having the hawk eye system go down or what, and conveniently for both games on the same day. both games are showing as having been played on that day in the MLB scores for the day. What am i missing. i are not that smart. maybe there were no games on that day and i was pulling up last years scores or something.

tend to agree with you although i am sure we would like to see the camera going down the line from home and an overhead view or one coming in from right field with a close up. But, 'looks like he did' means both of us are getting scratched and blackballed for life if we call it in the games we work. for some reason any thing like an obvious flinch on a balk that anyone would call and people would agree with, if that type of reasoning is used on this type of play, you will get crucified, rather than be considered great gutsy call like that obstruction at third in the playoffs a while ago. and if an obvious flinch toward second is not considered as an "attempt" by the rule on this type of play, well then we should not call it as such either.

i would say anyone at all getting a recommendations from Ted Barrett, Paul Nauert and Marvin Hudson in which Pawol did get from all 3, along with others getting the 3's recommendations over the years, would have a very very very good chance of getting a very very very good look throughout their career path of possibly becoming a MLBU candidate or future MLBU. articles below if they are not paywall??? https://www.nfhs.org/stories/it-all-started-here-jen-pawol. article that mentions Nauert, and Hudson too https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2024/02/nj-women-set-to-work-spring-training-on-verge-of-breaking-mlb-umpire-gender-barrier.html so, is that 200 games the breakpoint i have been asking about for years, of getting a full 2 years service credit as a MLBU?? (as per the amount in the MLBU CBO which would have been bargained for).

did delauter "make an attempt" to go to second on the overthrow at first to double him up in the top of first in chicago. he went back to first kind of fast. @johnny08 might be the only one who can find the play and show it. gary darling, "I've called it an attempt for less than that" when asked about one of his partner's making that call. there was no play made on him, but just wondering if there had been a play and they tagged him before he got back to first, would anyone have called him out for making an attempt to go to second.

what a dirt bag, with the way he treated the collegiate umpires, and now in MLB. didn't go any different than a month earlier against the reds with the same HP umpire ccs ejection number #104. and in 104 it was the Reds who came back from being well behind to win the game. and i believe a request went out to call the check swings more like the future replay check swing technology parameters being tested and used in MiLB.

1--marvin hudson in video review if the associated press is correct and not fake news added later and after a year off, bill miller will be in the mix for an LCS but not the WS and a tie with a couple more recent umps with 6 WS and will A.M. join the more recent MLBU group with 6 WS since he has a DS right now and his last WS was in 2023 and will he be able to tie Al Barlick with 7 or even get more before retirement, or will they let the other CCs get a 2nd or 3rd WS. could Blaser get a WS this year and then a CC next year

but i imagine from this old 2004 contract in which the categories have still pretty much stayed the same, just the amount of money has changed over time, they are still receiving that $23,000 bonus, as long as the playoffs are played, and maybe/probably more after 22 years and 5 contracts later, with an negotiated enhanced pension 22 years later now, and an enhanced severance since 2004. https://a.espncdn.com/mlb/news/2000/0905/725407.html

article says season not post season, so i would assume none, but if word season includes post season we basically only have one more list to look at for a chance https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2026/07/05/jacob-misiorowski-all-star-game-brewers-rain-mlb/90805897007/ so to be fair, who on the major, mid major and low major Collegiate umpire conferences next year with a list, can we guess on how many will be working post season, or and a list of High Schools in each state with a list to chose from that to be guessing they will be working post season, or liitle league with a list to guess from that will be working post season. and could we get a list of those to guess from that will be new MLBU crew chiefs next year. and guess which ones of the below will get the new 7 jobs on the staff next year sleeve No./total prior yrs. as call up/total games after 2025 no#-maybe now# bold are new stats for 2026 with # worked as the PU and B/S averages John Bacon 70/7/426 17/92.0 Evin Johnson Brock Ballou 41/4/254 22/93.7 Louie Krupa 17/94.5 Steven Jaschinski 65/1/20 19/94.4 Felix Neon 8/92.5 James Jean 61/2/124 27/93.8 Austin Snow Edwin Jime(slash on e)nez 75/3/288 18/93.8 Sean Sparling Austin Jones 77/2/157 21/94.3 Pete Talkington Tyler Jones 39/1/24 24/94.4 Mitch Trzeciak Dexter Kelly 56/1/15 21/94.4 Bryan Van Vranken Jacob Metz 94/3/195 21/93.2 Charlie Welling Jonathan Parra 30/2/125 16/93.5 Dillon Wilson 11/95 Jen Pawol 95/1/20 13/92.1 Derek Thomas 53/3/314. 21/94.2 Willie Traynor 45/1/66. 32/93.9

https://apnews.com/article/mlb-umpires-wild-card-series-ded4ae31d70ddba7b7ff22a2daccaf39

u got the WC and DS lineups. they have been notified if the 2025 umpire media guide still holds true?

some stats through the 17th--about 2 more plate jobs for most before season ends and could move the needle highest stats for 56 full time umpires working the plate for the season so far--28 umps needed for Wild Card (includes 4 in IR) and 28 needed for DS (includes 4 in IR) before moving on to LCS and WS. Visconiti 95.04, Ripperger 94.81, Moscoso ".54, Ceja ".51, Conroy .49, Morales .47, Tosi .40, MacKay .34, Tomlinson .31, Valentine .31, Hamari .25, Bacchus .21, Rehak .14, Tumpane .07, Gibson . 06, Libka .06, Wegner .02, Wolcott 93.97, Little .94, Merzel .90, DeJesus .85, Carapazza .81, Hanahan .78, Muchlinski .77, Additon .77, Hoye .67, Walsh .66, Reyburn .66, Tichnor .62, Barksdale .59, May .54, Beck .53, Lentz .51, Porter .50, Clemons .50, Livensparger .49, Rackley .45, Emil Jiminez .41, Wolfe .40, Guccione .39, Blaser .33, Bellino .33, Wills .29, Vondrak .29, Barry .25, Ramos .22, Whitson .21, Eddings .20, Baker .18, Miller .17, Marquez, .10, Hudson .07, Barrett .06, Miller .03, Blakney 92.92, Ortiz 92.90 courtesy of ump scorecards and yes there could be mistakes and misspellings etc. sorry if that happened. E on the stat copier. added 9/23--and this past sunday or monday at the latest, per mlb 2025 media guide, umpires for the Wild Card and Division Series must be notified one week before the end of the regular season of their assignments, unless the policy changed, and that will also be the pool of candidates for the LCS and WS. now, has someone been on concussion protocol or other reason and forced to miss a WC or DS, but did get an LCS assignment, who knows. and those who do not have the plate before the season ends or have replay, and do not work the plate in the WC or DS, and then get game 6 or 7 in an LCS or WS, have gone quite a while without working the plate at all.

but will it cause a ding (the call or the handling of the call this late in the season), and affect a possible post season assignment coming up. and of course could calls and situations all through this past season affect the upcoming 4 new crew chief selections for next year, and of the possible candidates for crew chief next year who/whom does not have a WS as part of their resume or a second one that would add to the resume.

after googling about umpires this is what some writer somewhere wants. what did the late jimmy buffett say??? umpiring from a different point of view https://triblive.com/sports/mark-madden-mlb-umpires-should-worry-more-about-crooked-eyesight-and-egos-than-caps/

Just asking Cincinnati down 17-0 asking for a pitch challenge in the 8th. is it being asked because u think HPU has had a lousy night when the team is still down 17-0 and you want to make him have to stay longer and send him a coded message without having to say a word, or is this a, i paid my dues in the minors, i will ask for a challenge whenever i want to. just like money ball and that 13-0 comeback that almost happened. could he not have just swung the bat at that pitch. maybe he would have got a hit since it was a strike, and he would not have had an o fer 4 night. kind of like little tommy and i paid my money, i will ask my questions. if the batter hits a ball to the moon and it bounces off the moon and lands in fair territory, is it a ground rule double or a home run or keep on playing as if it did did not hit the moon. but what if it hits a bird on the way to, or way back from the moon, or its hits the bird both on the way to and on the way back, what then. but i paid my dues, i will ask my questions.

and you had the call mentioned in this article below in the LCS in 2005 and then no playoffs again whatsoever until a one game wild card in left field in 2014 then until a DS in 2018. so lets be fair. where are all those videos and articles, especially videos of professional umpires of amateur players from college on down that are less than as umpires so we can compare and talk about them. https://www.ocregister.com/2005/10/13/eddings-blown-call-a-stinker/

my guess is that the comeuppance u might be seeking will be in the form of no playoff assignments whatsoever, which will end the streak of having a DS, or LCS, or WS every year since 2018. seems like that was the punishment for another pitcher incident in the past in May of 2022 which was a lot earlier in the year when that happen. I would imagine MLB does not want this situation and negative publicity, especially happening only a month before post season, to possibly be on the tip of every announcers tongue to mention and talk about, before the start of every game of a post season assignment if they were to be chosen for a playoff assignment. now an umpire/former sheriff tackling a streaker in April for running on the field, would be an entirely different situation for not wanting to possibly take the fans minds off the coming post season.

just use full ABS like the umpires wanted for ball strike. use the new check swing technology for check swing or not. use the infrared technology to help with HBP or ball off the foot. there will be a plethora of other work at the plate. keeping the count. timing infractions or not, balks or not, catchers interference or not, fair foul or not, pitcher trapping ball hit back to them or not, runners lane violation or not, safe out at the plate or not, placement of runners, etc. When ABS goes down with a tech problem, then the umpires can call the rest of the game ball/strike like they do now. and did the SEC use the ball strike technology that we know they have, and we know they have it, to pick the best umpires ball/strike wise to call the SEC tournament. other than just go by the misses, even if un-challeged, you could tighten up the zone on who/whom you pick for the tournament by taking the distance missed on each miss ball or strike, and divide it by the total number of pitches called to get the best umpires that have the least amount of distanced missed by (DMB) and chose them to work the tournament and be the leader in this area.

would it not help in a scouting/supervisor situation. all the umpires at a level come to the supervisor, rather than the supervisor chasing the crews. you could see 45 guys in low A work the plate, 45 in high A work the plate, and 45 in AA work the plate, much like the MLB area observers seeing most all of the crews as they come to their area. added below also a thought at the AAA leagues (not saying it is true, just a thought) comes to mind with the veteran call ups in the IL or PCL. if they are veterans in there home league so to speak for years, it looks like they had been shifting some of them to the opposite league after 4 years anyway, since they hardly got argued with, compared to new guys, by that home league they were in. when they had to switch leagues, the new league managers, might, be more inclined to argue with them a little more (a la aaron boone) than their old home league would have, having not seen them. and that would create more, how do you handle situations instances, than you would get if you had stayed in your same old home league forever. so the supervisors and observers evaluating in the new league got to see more of your, handling situations abilities, and other abilities since you were new. now that everyone moves through all leagues they are all seen on both coasts it sounds like, AAA on down.

where's all the venom that was spewed at bucknor for, missing, 6 out of 8 ABS challenges. cc miller missed every single one, 8 out of 8, on the same amount of 8 challenges or 100% misses yesterday. let's not play favorites and pick on some (like boone picking on the young guys, (call ups), to argue with) while giving others (with the possibility of receiving an upcoming 6th WS) a free pass. game has been over since 4 to 5pm. why no post here yet. https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/umpire-bill-miller-goes-0-8-abs-challenges-reds-10-8-win-cubs-wrigley-field?msockid=0709b428f05f632c31e0a3ecf10a6237 added 9/12 - and in his first HP assignment 9/8 back from a vacation or a replay week, Mr. Miller missed the first 3 pitch challenges in a row, to make that 11 straight misses/overturns over a two game span before getting the other 2 challenges in that last game confirmed. it can happen to anyone, from a low rated umpire in the league to a high rated umpire with 5 world series under their belt and it could happen to all of us.

so? zone is from middle of plate and not the front as to where it starts like MLB? and are they using ELC (Electronic Line Calling) ie Hawkeye 3D tracking like in tennis or trackman radar tracking. Hawkeye was the choice for SEC tournament last year.

so are they taking off that extra basically .22 to .24 on each side 1.43-1.47 radius at the middle and saying that the known error rate of .10 to .50 on trackman or any other company, will just knock the above out and just call it even at 1 inch extra on each side on the above out. it will be great when we get to see in print the same scores like in MLB ump scorecards and i would expect them to be pretty much the same. but, it gives a chance to use the numbers for post season picks if they so choose or not. and the 3 challenges is great (like 3 strikes and your out). that means if you go 50/50 starting with team getting the first third and 5th challenge overturned you will get at least 6 challenges and the other team does the same at least 6 to 12(if you are getting them all correct) missed pitches would get covered.

apparently crews in AA are switching leagues during the season. what is this all about. letting them see all the MLB organizations, rather than just the ones in one league all year. when were the rest of us going to be let in on this new development or did we miss the memo. so what's the scoop. just AA doing this or is A ball doing this. is anything else going on? just found it in AA looking through some box scores.