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Originally posted by wobster
My BU told me after the game that I am too thin skinned!
This guy had 3 strikes against him, so to speak.
He insulted me,
He questioned my call,
He held up the game, since the players were all watching him.
My mother, who used to be in charge of all local traveling leagues, said it was a bad ejection, I shouldn't have done it.
I have asked a few other umpires, they said it was good. My father, who coached for 10 years and was in charge of traveling at town leagues for a time said it was a good ejection.
What do you guys think? From what he said was it grounds enough to eject?
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Wobster;
You must learn to ignore most of the advice that you are getting within the league where you are currently located.
I am making the assumption that you want to get better and move up to high school, NCAA or something like that. If your goal is to stay in LL and work with kids, then it WOULD be a good idea to listen to those guys. They know what they are talking about in that arena only.
However, they have no clue about what it takes to become a top level umpire. If they knew anything about "real baseball", they would probably not be working in LL.
Real baseball at high levels is about control. One of the skills that you must master is ejections. (This is one of about half a dozen control skills that you must master, but master it you must and the other skills flow from its mastery. Therefore, it is pointless to learn much about these other skills until you have mastered ejections.)
It is simply not relevant at this stage of your career as to whether it was a good ejection or not. Or whether you handled it properly.
You must practice ejections to see the results and learn for yourself the positive and negative results of ejections. You must learn to manage the adrenalin and exitement that goes with an ejection. Only by studying the effects on the players, coaches, and fans, can you truly understand the power of an ejection.
You ejected someone. You noted that the whole game calmed down and people behaved. Let's assume that it was a "bad" ejection from everyone else's point of view. Let's also assume that you handled it improperly.
OK, so what. It produced the desired results and you learned something about ejections. From your point of view, it was the right move. Peace and harmony was restored and your game knowledge advanced. F$$$ everything else.
The kids are there to learn baseball and they make a ton of mistakes. Why shouldn't you be there to learn umpiring? And make a ton of mistakes?
WindyCityBlue was telling you about looking professional. With all due respect, WCB has a ton of experience and his experience may not be relevant to you right now. He was trying to teach you how ride a unicycle when your bicycle still has training wheels. You have to learn how to ride a bicycle before you can ride a unicycle. After you learn how to ride a bicycle, then you learn how to do wheelies. After you have mastered wheelies, you are ready for WCB's training on how to ride a unicycle.
The point is, that much of the advice that you are getting in your league is wrong. Much of the advice that you are getting on the Internet is irrelevant to where your game is at. You must develop a game plan to get from where you are to where you want to be. Find a local high school group to join in your area.
Peter