"I am an odd umpire. I hate calling strikeouts. "Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they're fascist.""
Get your emotions out of it. A strike is a strike and a ball is a ball. Your zone should be the same for each team. Score doesn't matter. My pet peeve is umps trying to make the game fair or even. Do not expanded the zone for the most likely losing team and squeeze the better team's pitcher. Its not your job to level the playing field. Its either a ball or a strike. Kinda like a robot. lol
I think you're assuming he's only expanding the zone for one side.
Also, I assume a lot of this zone expanding talk is for HS level or other untimed games. Those steeped in the travel world where games rarely go past 90 minutes just don't get what kind of a slog a 2 1/2 hour HS game (that goes 5 innings) can be.
I think TMIB's "expanded" zone is fine, mostly, but I don't like calling pitches in the batter's boxes. Some of those are quite literally unhittable.