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Originally posted by ozzy6900
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Originally posted by wobster
As anyone knows who has been watching the thread Advice on chirping, I ejected my first fan after 8 years of umpiring saturday.
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Well, you're going from the frying pan into the fire. Unless you are in a stadium with police protection you should never extend beyond the field. Even then, it's not advisable.
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I thought it to be a good ejection, as did some other umpires and people around baseball told me, and a few here told me not to worry about it, just to keep practicing my ejections - throw more people out.
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Now that's real sound advice, "throw more people out". It's begining to sound like you are taking advice from the horse's a$$ - and it's going to cost you some teeth very soon!
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I just talked to my league president, I am the vice president, and he chewed my butt for throwing the guy out! He said "there is always going to be some complaints about your calls, umpiring is a thankless job."
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I think that you should listen to this guy. He's absolutley right.
Look, I don't care if the fan is disrupting the game, there are other ways of dealing with it. Get both coaches together, clear the field and let them tell the fans that if this doesn't stop, the game will not continue.
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Yes, I should have had the skipper take care of it, we talked about that in the other post. I should have tossed the coach that was giving me problems, and had the manager toss the fan or get him in line, I know that, now. But ironically enough, I did have police protection, as the other coach was a cop.
And it was His High Holiness who told me to eject more people. I am not going to eject somebody unless it is bad, anyway.
My stance remains, though, that the president should have my back, as he does the other umpires. It was my call. But the biggest problem I had is that he told me I was power hungry because I through out 1 person in 8 years.