Making The Tough Call

Recently there was a case of a baseball empire making a bad call that cost a pitcher his perfect game. (I’m not going to link to it, or research names. Baseball fans will know the story way better than I do, and non-baseball fans won’t care about it, which is the camp I’m in.) The ump apologised publicly and apparently privately to the pitcher, and by all accounts there was peace.

Some took this an object lesson in apologising, manning up, etc. For me though, and for where I’m at, the most important part of this is that someone has got to make the hard call. The call may not be right every time. It might not be popular. But there would be no progress if there was no decision. So when it’s up to you, be afraid, count the cost, prepare your apologies if necessary, but make the hard calls.