BigSam
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Watching the CWS and this lady ump has rung up THREE batters for hitting the ball with a foot out of the batter's box. The fans are losing their cajun minds and worse for me, the commentators keep yapping about how there are no lines left for the boxes so it's a "judgement call."
It's ALWAYS A JUDGEMENT CALL! Batters are jerks, and they destroy those lines so fast you wonder if they were ever down. The ump is clearly using the plate as a guide, because yeah, that's how you do it. It isn't like these umpires are scrubs... these are the best crews in college softball. One of the three girls stepped ON the plate, and the other two were pretty clearly in front of the entire plate.
It'd be great if the commentators did some umpiring. Hell one of them is Michele Smith. You'd hope she would be better with the rules having been a pitcher for so long.
It's ALWAYS A JUDGEMENT CALL! Batters are jerks, and they destroy those lines so fast you wonder if they were ever down. The ump is clearly using the plate as a guide, because yeah, that's how you do it. It isn't like these umpires are scrubs... these are the best crews in college softball. One of the three girls stepped ON the plate, and the other two were pretty clearly in front of the entire plate.
It'd be great if the commentators did some umpiring. Hell one of them is Michele Smith. You'd hope she would be better with the rules having been a pitcher for so long.