Fastest way to get on the bad side of an umpire, tell them before the game has even started what they need to be watching for. NOT a good idea.
Who advocated that?
Fastest way to get on the bad side of an umpire, tell them before the game has even started what they need to be watching for. NOT a good idea.
At the beginning of the game to say to the ump during warm ups... stay close, we stay on corners. The catcher can also tap the umpire's foot when throwing a tricky pitch like a low rise which is known to fool a lot of umpires who think it's going to drop out of the zone when it stays (or comes up) into the bottom of the zone.
Fastest way to get on the bad side of an umpire, tell them before the game has even started what they need to be watching for. NOT a good idea.
Having worked as an umpire, I was never persuaded by such pre-game shenanigans as having the catcher telling me during "warm ups" to "stay close, we stay on corners".
If it made the catcher believe they gained an edge for their pitcher, then fine ... but it did nothing to persuade me one way or the other. I know some umpires would feel a bit insulted, and if anything, would lean the other way.
Umpires aren't at the games to make friends. They fully expect that during the course of the game, that virtually everyone present may end up not liking them. It comes with the job.
So FFS. To answer your question, no they are not equal and yes you should work to square up the drop and not just accept the flaw.
And yet pitchers such as Keilani Ricketts won a WCWS title and play NPF primarily from throwing a very effective Crop. I wonder if she would have been a better or worse pitcher had she abandoned the crop and focused on the drop exclusively?
And yet pitchers such as Keilani Ricketts won a WCWS title and play NPF primarily from throwing a very effective Crop. I wonder if she would have been a better or worse pitcher had she abandoned the crop and focused on the drop exclusively?