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Welcome to Blue Crew Diaries, an Umpire podcast. My name is Daryl, and I will be your host

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as we take a look behind the mask, so to speak, sharing stories, insights and experiences

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from the unique perspective of the baseball umpire. In this episode, we're going to talk

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a little bit about some baseball rules myths and try to help debunk them. If you have any questions,

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comments or ideas for future episodes, drop me a line at BlueCrewDiaries at gmail.com. So if

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you're ready, grab your indicator and plate brush and let's hit the field.

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All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Blue Crew Diaries, an Umpire podcast.

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This episode, as you heard in the intro, we're going to do some baseball rules myths. Some of

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these I have heard over the years, just wherever. Some other ones of these I've actually heard on

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the field while I've been working games. So we're going to go over a little bit of a list of them,

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some of my favorite ones, and we're going to add a little bit of truth to them. And yeah,

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pretty much overturn the myth, so to speak. One or two announcements before we start that.

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As I believe I mentioned in the previous episode, the Eastern Maine Baseball Umpires Association

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is hosting a baseball umpire clinic that is going to be on Sunday, January 26th,

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2025. For those of you in the Eastern Maine area, it's going to be held at the University of Maine

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in the Mahaney Dome, and it should be fairly interesting. We're actually going to be working

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with the University of Maine baseball team and helping them get ready for their season, but also

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helping to train some new umpires as well. This clinic is for anyone who is currently an umpire

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or anyone who is thinking of becoming an umpire and wants to see what it's like.

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We, or they, I keep saying we, I will be attending this clinic, but they will actually be conducting

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a scrimmage game with the UMaine baseball team. And the umpires at this clinic will be rotating

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in and out behind the plate or out in the field during that scrimmage. That's kind of going to be

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towards the end of the day. So that should be pretty cool. I've never, up till now, I've never

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stood behind the plate and actually had someone in the caliber of an NCAA pitcher throwing towards

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me. I've only done Little League, and the highest I've done there is juniors. So it should be a good

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day. If you want more information, just go to Google, search for Eastern Maine baseball umpire

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association. And on their homepage at the top, you're going to see a link to umpire clinic.

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And it's also also right on the homepage. You can click on that. It gives you some of the

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information. And there's the registration box down at the bottom of the page for you to register.

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Once you register, you should get an email from one of the instructors, you know, stating that they

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received a registration and also send you like a PDF of more in depth of what the day is going to

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hold. So check that out if you're in the Eastern Maine area and are interested in an umpire clinic.

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It will be more or less a mechanics clinic. They're not going to be talking about rules

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and stuff like that. So it's pretty much for anybody. If you want to work high school ball,

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middle school ball, college ball, Little League, anything. If you are an umpire or you want to

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become an umpire, this would be the clinic for you. And the best thing is the clinic is free.

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So check that out. Second announcement I have is Blue Crew Diaries now has a Discord server.

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Yes, I have jumped on the bandwagon and created a Discord. So I will leave a comment

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it will be down in the description below. Check it out. I've got, obviously I don't have really

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any content on it yet. I have put some stuff in the umpire training channel. Some stuff that I have

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found helpful over the years. You know, the links to California District 4 YouTube channel, stuff

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like that. But get a bunch of different text channels, get game reports. So if you work a game,

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let us know about it. Feel free to subscribe to the server. I don't know if subscribe is

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the right word, but you get the idea. Join the server. I've got some equipment discussion forums.

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I've got one channel called Let's Get Physical. So if any of you have any sort of physical fitness

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routine or pregame, you know, kind of workout or warm up, jump in that channel and tell us what you

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do. It could help somebody. I've also got another channel in there for mistakes and learning

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miss out on any future episodes. I will be trying to get more and more episodes out.

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Hopefully if I come up with more ideas for episodes. So getting into this episode's main topic,

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baseball rules myths. I'm sure you've probably heard some good ones over the years, as have I.

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So let's start with the first one. That being that the hands are part of the bat. Now we're talking

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if the hands get hit by a pitch or something like that,

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the way that I've always heard this, this myth debunked is when you go to the sporting goods

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store and you purchase a baseball bat, do you get a pair of hands that come with the bat?

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No, you don't. You simply get the bat. That's it. So no, the hands are not part of the bat.

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So if you take a pitch in the hands, well, more than likely it's going to be a hit by pitch scenario

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and you're awarded first base. That's it. The next one is if a batted ball hits home plate,

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it is foul. No. And why is that not correct? Well, if you look at the foul lines, both the left foul

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line and the right foul line, they come down and continue along the edge of home plate to the point

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of the bat. So the bat is not a hit. The bat is a foul. So the bat is a foul. So the bat is a

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nose. So you achieve And the thumb, you influence. I also like to try this

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Qur'an, if a teapot does go down the plate, why is it呢, the ball goes straight down

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It is not foul. Now, if the ball comes off the bat, hits the plate, and rolls

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backwards into foul territory off the plate, then it's a foul ball. But if it

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comes to a dead stop on the plate, or it hits the plate and rolls into fair

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territory, it's a fair ball all day long. Hitting the plate does nothing. Here's

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another one. Ball is dead on a foul tip. Now, let's kind of remind everybody what

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a foul tip is. A foul tip is not a foul ball. A foul tip is when the bat makes

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contact with the ball, with the pitched ball, and the ball is struck sharp and

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direct into the catcher's mitt, and the catcher legally catches the ball. That is

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a strike. That is not a foul ball. So, therefore, a foul tip is treated as a

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live ball. It is a live ball strike. So, anything can happen. Runners can run.

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Anything. You know, I love, for those of you who followed Red Sox for years, I

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believe it was Jerry Remy up in the announce booth. You know, anytime the ball

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came off the bat and went flying up into the backstop, well, there's a foul tip.

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No, it's not a foul tip. It's a foul ball. A foul tip is goes straight into the

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catcher's mitt and is legally caught. So, not a foul ball. Therefore, not a dead

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ball. Here's another one that you tend to see more in Little League. On a third

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strike that is not caught, and very, very, very good to distinguish the difference

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here, it is not a dropped third strike. Everybody uses that terminology,

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dropped third. Oh, okay. You guys playing drop third? Okay, yeah. We'll play drop

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third. It is not drop third. It is third strike not caught. And the reason I kind

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of harp on this is because dropped third strike makes it seem like the catcher

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has to get the ball in the glove and then drop it in order for this rule to

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apply. And that is not the case. If the pitch comes in, bounces off the dirt, and

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then goes into the catcher's mitt, it is still not a legally caught ball.

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Therefore, the third strike not caught applies. It's as simple as that. If the

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pitch comes in, bounces off the chest protector of the catcher, and then goes

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into the mitt, it's third strike not caught, if it is the third strike. So, very,

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very important to make that distinction. So, on a third strike not caught, the

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batter is out if they fail to attempt to advance to first base immediately. That

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is not true. In little league, now this is kind of dependent on the rule

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set. In little league, the batter can run to first base or attempt to advance to

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first base pretty much at any time until they either enter the dugout or

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enter a dead ball area. So, you could have a batter, third strike not caught,

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they turn around, they walk back towards the dugout. They can get right to the

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door of the dugout and then go, oh crap, I got to run to first base, and take off

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running as long as they haven't entered the dugout or other dead ball area. And I

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have seen that before. I've seen batters not realize that they have to run, or

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they can run, and they walk three quarters of the way back to the dugout

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usually on the third base side, which is funny because now they have further to

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run. And eventually they get tacked out by the catcher anyway, or thrown out.

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Let's see. Next one, going again with the batter, is the batter is not awarded

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first base if hit by a pitch after the pitch bounces. That is false. A batter

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getting hit by a pitch is a batter getting hit by a pitch. Period. So, I have

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seen this. You will see this particularly in minor league, in the

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minors little league. You will see pitched balls that bounce off the ground

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and then hit the batter. Well guess what folks, that's a hit by pitch. So, as long

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as the part of the batter that was hit by the ball was not in the strike zone,

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like they're leaning way over the plate into the strike zone, as long as that

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doesn't happen, take your base batter. Just that simple. Let's see. The next one,

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kind of getting out into the field, and I've heard many many many different

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iterations of this, and it is if a fielder holds a caught fly ball for X

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amount of time, it's a catch. That is not true. I've heard it as well, you know, if

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the as long as the fielder holds on to the ball for two seconds, or one second,

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or five seconds, it's considered a catch. No, no. The fielder must have secure

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possession of the ball and voluntary release. That is the key phrase here,

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voluntary release. So, let me let me do up a scenario for you real quick.

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Fielder catches a fly ball, starts to run in, because let's say it's a third out,

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starts to jog back into the dugout, and the ball just magically pops out of their

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glove and onto the ground.

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Legally, that is not considered a catch, and therefore, that batter can still keep

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running going around the bases, because they're not out yet. Now, same scenario,

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except the fielder stands there, reaches into their glove, pulls the ball out, and

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then accidentally drops it on the ground.

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That is still considered an out, because the fielder had, there was voluntary

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release. The fielder intended for the ball to come out of their glove. That's

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why they reached in to the glove to pull the ball out. If they intend for that

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ball to come out of the glove, it's still a catch. And in this example, it would

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be a, oh, they dropped it on the transfer, it's still considered a catch. So, you'll

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see this a lot of times with outfielders, they'll catch the fly ball, and then

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they're trying to hurry up and get the ball back into the infield, possibly to

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get a runner that is trying to get back to the base, because they hadn't tagged up

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yet, or to keep the runner from getting to the next base, whatever it is. And on

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the transfer, they accidentally drop the ball, literally. That's an on the

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transfer. So, the initial catch for the out is still a catch for an out. So, it has

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to have voluntary release. There is no time limit as to how long the fielder

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has to hold the ball in the glove. And now, we come to, I was gonna save this one for

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last, but I'll do it right now. We've come to probably the most widely known myth

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in the history of baseball. I even heard this one, and granted the coach was

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joking, he knew the rule, but I actually heard this one in a farm league game

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this year. Okay? And that is, tie goes to the runner. I'm sure any of you umpires

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out there listening to this have probably heard this multiple times. The

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way I always sort of explain this rule is the runner has to beat the ball to

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the base. It's that simple. Touching the base at the same time, at the same time

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that the fielder catches the ball, it's not beating the ball. You get there at

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the same time. Okay? You're still out. You have to beat the ball. You have to get

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there before the ball. And one little axiom that I like to use is the only

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tie that can ever happen in baseball is a score. And even that, at the end of the

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game, there is no tie. Either one team is ahead or they continue playing. But yeah,

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there's no tie goes to the runner. If the runner gets to the

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base at the exact same time as the ball, the runner is still out because they

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didn't beat the ball there. And that brings me to the last one that I have.

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And that is that the home plate umpire can overrule another umpire. That is

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flat-out false. No umpire. Doesn't matter if you're the home plate umpire or if

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you're working like a foreman or a fore umpire. Sorry ladies. A fore umpire game. If

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you're the crew chief, doesn't matter if you're the most senior umpire on the

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field, you cannot overrule the call made by one of your partners. You cannot do

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it under any circumstances. Now the original umpire that made the call, they

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can, based off of information that they receive from their partner, they can

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overturn their call themselves. But only they can overturn their call. So let me

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give you an example here that actually happened to me in a game. I was over in

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C, the C position over before in between second third base working a little league

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majors game. And I forget exactly what happened but a runner took off from

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second to third, got halfway, turned around, decided to come back. Now at this

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time there was no runner on first. So it's not like the runner on second was

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being forced to third. So they turn around, they come back because the ball

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was thrown to second. It was initially going to be thrown to third. Then the

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runner turned around. Now they're throwing the ball to second. The ball

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gets to second. The runner slides

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and I call the runner out. Now from what I saw the ball beat the runner. But I

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completely spaced on the fact that it wasn't a force. So therefore a tag had

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to be made in order to get the out. And the fielder at second base never made a

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tag. They just caught the ball and then decided to try to throw to first. I called

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the runner out by mistake. I got a little heat from the from the offensive

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dugout as I should have. And about a week later the next time I saw that

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particular coach he actually came over and apologized for for blowing up on me

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in that game. But he had every right to because I made the wrong call. I screwed

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it up. I admitted it. I screwed the call up. He had every right to get pissed off

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at me and he did. But then later on he apologized. So kind of tells you the kind

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of person that he is. And I have a little bit more respect for him now

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because he apologized. So good dude. But I screwed up the call. So once all the

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action was stopped I called time.

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I got with the plate umpire who was kind of my mentor Darren. And at this point I

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realized I screwed it up. So Darren and I get together. I flat out told Darren I

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screwed that call up. Darren says yeah you did it wasn't a force he had to be

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tagged whatever. Alright okay I'll take care of it. I turn around I pointed to

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the runner I said runner safe. And that was the end of it. There was one lady who

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she was just one of the spectators. She kind of gave me an earful basically

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because she didn't understand what was going on and what the actual rule was on

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that. So she gave me a little bit of a blowing up but big deal. So I changed my

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call. Darren did not change my call. Darren gave me input. I asked Darren for

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input. Darren gave me the input. I used that to reverse my original call to get

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the call right. So at no time did Darren say hey I'm gonna overrule you. All Darren

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said was hey here's the rule do with it what you want basically. And I did but we

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got the call right. And one one little tip for you guys regarding outside

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influence. In this particular case this lady on the other side of the fence that

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was that was jacking me up a little bit. For a little while shortly after I got

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out of high school I was believe it or not a professional wrestling referee for

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one of the local wrestling companies or organizations if you will. And believe it

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or not I know everybody says that wrestling is fake. It is not. It's

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choreographed. It is planned out is controlled but it is not by any means

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fake. And one thing that I learned from being a referee in wrestling is basically

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if it is outside of the ropes on the ring act like it doesn't exist. Unless

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there's a manager out there that you know they jump up on the apron and I'm

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supposed to interact with them. Obviously I do that but and other than that

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spectators and everything if it's outside the ropes it doesn't exist in

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my mind. And I use the same thought process on the baseball field. If it is

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outside the fence or on the other side of the fence it doesn't exist. I mean yeah

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I've I very easily have heard people in the in the stands bitching and moaning

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or whatever they're gonna say. You just don't you don't pay any attention to it.

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You just ignore it. Because half the time the people in the crowd don't know what

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the hell's going on anyway. There are a lot of coaches out there that don't know

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certain rules. So if you start getting blown up by somebody off the field just

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ignore them. They don't exist. So having said that I will bring this rambling

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podcast episode to a close. Again check out the discord server. And if you have

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any questions comments ideas for future episodes which I am in great need of

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right now. Either leave a comment on the YouTube page if you're listening to this

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on YouTube. If not bluecrewdiaries at gmail.com. I did receive a email from a

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gentleman a couple of weeks ago after I posted the the last episode episode 7.

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And apparently this this individual had umpired back in the day and was now

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thinking about getting back into it. And found this podcast to be very helpful.

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So I'm I'm thrilled that the the podcast is able to help people. And I really do

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appreciate that individual taking the time to send me an email telling me just

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how much it has helped. So thank you very much. I really appreciate that. So

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everybody else you know drop me a line if the podcast has helped you out in any

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way let me know. Because honestly that gives me the motivation to keep going

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with this. That is that is my sole purpose with this podcast is to help

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others as well as help myself as far as rules and things like that. So drop me a

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line let me know what I can do to help you become a better umpire. So with that

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as I always say and truly mean thank you all very much for listening and I will

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see you on the diamond.