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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Blaine: I see you've reverted to your old self, ignoring emails and calling people "stupid" who disagree with you. (grin) ....
Therefore, my philosophy of game control is well known to you: Control the coach (with as much redass as you think necessary), and you won't have trouble with the players.
You did not reach the heights you did by being redass. You got there because you call good. At the nationals, coaches and players -- you told me -- are generally very well behaved.
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First Carl, I never called YOU stupid. I said to teach a new umpire three choices in this situation is stupid.
Second, the clinic here was for experienced umpires. Also, if the guy is drawing a line on me, his coach already has failed in his duty. I am moving to the dark side this year (doing some coaching). I guarantee the kids will know (and the parents will too) what is and isn't acceptable behavior. This will not happen on my watch.
Regardless on how "good" I call, being a redass at times is necessary. Often arguments are not as much about the call, but over frustration. Still, it needs to be dealt with. Heck, if arguments were only over bad calls, why would *I* need to eject! LOL