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There is an umpire in my local HS and college group who I'm paired with fairly regularly this year...he's "that guy" who thinks he knows everything already, and has an excuse for everything he does. Anyway, I worked a JUCO DH with him earlier this spring, and every time there was R1 only, he would go right past B and start in C. After the game, I asked him about this and he said that he had a better angle for a pickoff at first, had the runner and F4 in front of him, and was in a better position for a steal attempt. I told him B was the proper position, he said he knew that but liked being in C better so that's what he was going to do. I just said Okay, didn't see the point in arguing with him. Fast forward to yesterday, we are at an on-field clinic for our HS group and sure enough when he is on the bases, he goes to C with R1. Our evaluation chair asks him about this after his innings and tells him B is proper, and this guy argued for a good 5 minutes trying to defend that C is better than B with R1 only. I guess my question is, is there anything I could say to this guy to convince him he is wrong? I'm just envisioning working another game with him, he misses a call because he is in the wrong position, and then the SH*# hitting the fan. Thoughts?
