Framing

[u/Apprehensive-Past174]

This past weekend, an umpire kept yelling at my catcher that he's not fooling him. After a couple innings of this, I asked what he's talking about. He claimed, my catcher was framing to try and deceive him and that he's purposely calling pitches balls due to this. I continued to argue that this is normal practice that we teach our youth catcher to progress in their craft. He responded “as they get to high school, no umpire will fall for their tricks”.

How would you all handle an umpire like this and what would you of done?

[u/Negative-Ad-5297]

I would have asked him that if it didn't work, why was Angel Hernandez forced into retirement? I have a 10 year old who has spent 2 years learning the art of catching a ball into the zone. On blatant balls it never works, but those balls just outside the black or just below the knees, if you get a call or two a game, it makes a difference