Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
In my heart, I never called one wrong.
The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.
Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.