Greenmonsters
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I think he's checking his wristwatch after making the out call - either double parked or late for a date is my guess as you can't honestly miss a call that badly.
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Missed obviously, but I wonder how many times during the game the the first base coach is making signals for "safe" on close(r) calls. As a coach, I personally don't like base coaches trying to influence calls by signalling or yelling results as the umpire is trying to process a decision. I know it's part of the game, but to me, it's akin to yelling out snap counts on defense in football. Let the umpire make their call in peace.
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there's no way someone can miss this bad, is there? like he obviously wanted to get this one over with?
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We scrimmaged a team with a very competitive coach recently. Very focused on winning. I noticed several times he loudly yelled "good eye!" before the ball even reached the plate. Pretty slimy if it was on purpose, which it seemed to be.
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this bugs me too. I know of one team in our local LL where the coaches were yelling out the calls before the (sometimes high school kid) umpire, and they typically got those calls. and those coaches always had successful teams from Majors (U12) thru Seniors (U16).
I met one umpire who told me if it's a close play and the 1B coach makes a call, he will make the opposite call.
I want to see the extended version of the clip, where all the parents go ballistic! 
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Back in my umping days, I'd let the 1B coach know that I was making the calls and that he needed to not be making signals in the box. That would usually end it, but I'd never deliberately deny a kid an obvious hit just to prove a point to the coach. If it's that bad, send him to the parking lot. I'm seeing more and more 1B coaches do this in college and it does get on my nerves. Ohio State's 1B coach does it constantly.
There has got to be more to this story than we know right now.
There has got to be more to this story than we know right now.
Did anyone catch the tag play at second in ut sc game. Ut tagged underside of runners cleat before the bag. Safe was the call and replay showed otherwise. Good example of honest blown call and they happen. The video has to have something else going on for it to missed that bad.
Several possibilities:
1. The umpire was hallucinating.
2. This was a "make up" call, to compensate for an earlier blown call when he called a girl safe who should've been out.
3. The umpire was trying to get even with the 1B coach for making his own calls
4. The umpire wasn't paying attention at all to what was going on.
1. The umpire was hallucinating.
2. This was a "make up" call, to compensate for an earlier blown call when he called a girl safe who should've been out.
3. The umpire was trying to get even with the 1B coach for making his own calls
4. The umpire wasn't paying attention at all to what was going on.
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