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Originally posted by thumpferee
The 3rd base coach (The Assist. coach) goes balistic. As he walks across the field to his dugout, he asks the PU where he is from. ....
...."Those umpires are terrible". BING! "your gone". I toss him and tell the Manager his assistant has been ejected.
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First, assistants are not allowed to express opinions about anything other than the weather and other pleasantries. Never let an assistant mouth off or discuss a call. Your partner should have ejected him immediately under well established umpire protocols.
BUT...
Second, it is sometimes better for the umpire not involved in the situation to eject the coach. Your partner had the problem with the coach and you ejected him. When the report goes out, it makes the coach look worse that he had a problem with both umpires instead of just one umpire. The coach has a problem with authority figures instead of a problem with a single personality. This gives the coach a much bigger problem with his AD or league president.
For political purposes inside of an umpire organization, this also works in your favor. No matter how much the umpire may be in the right, some blame is almost always placed on the umpire for not controlling the situation. If nothing else, the big dogs attempt to use an ejection as an excuse to deny you better games. After all, you could not "handle" the situation. It's the umpire's fault that an assistant coach is a jackass. Or, the big dogs take the side of the coach and say that the umpire blew the call. If the umpire was not incompetent, then the coach would not be a jackass.
When an ejection goes down as you described it, the big dogs have very little to get a handle on with which to undermine your reputation. The PU, who made the call, got the coach to the dugout without an ejection. The PU also established himself as an a$$hole, which is sometimes a good reputation to have, The BU, who had nothing to do with the call, ejected the coach after overhearing one inappropiate comment. There was no situation or call that the BU was part of.
In professional umpire terms (MLB or minor league), this is totally f$$$ed up. In political terms of amateur umpire groups, this may be a very savvy way to handle it.
Peter