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Originally posted by CecilOne
So now, instead of players yelling "Do you have a date?", they can yell "Do you have a bus to catch?" or "What time is the bus?".
BTW, if you redline every partner who screws up, you will work a lot of games alone.
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Not trying to "redline" every partner who screws up, just the ones who have a habit of screwing up on last outs (after talking to an assignor, this guy does), being late to games, and not being willing to learn a better way of doing things.
For crying out loud, we had to hold our pregame meeting (umpires, of course) between innings! Fortunately, he didn't have anything too major come up (save last play). Nothing that coaches would go ballistic about.
But what really gets me, and this is my soapbox, is in this state coaches vote for umpires who do the state championship tournament (NFHS). So, if I have partners that screw up all the time, it will eventually trickle down to making me look bad (i.e. coach loses game on a call like this one, but thinks that call cost them the game, so he votes me and partner as bad umpires). I'll stick by him through thick and thin on the diamond, then kick him in the stomach (figuratively) after the game, in private. Then I call assignor and have him not schedule me with partner again (BTW, assignor told me before game that he needed "one good umpire on the game, and that was me."