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Once you don the blue you can no longer fully separate the roles you fill at a ball game. So many people know you as a blue and you must conduct yourself as you ideally expect others to conduct themselves.
I coach a rec team (12-13), play AA (empahsis on the first A) slo-pitch softball, umpire AA softball and umpire youth baseball.
As the way it happens I sometimes end up calling games in the same division I coach in. There is no way on earth I can fully separate my duties as a coach and the fact that I am also an umpire. As a coach I MUST act as I expect coaches to act when I am the blue. To do anything else is hypocritical. Granted I get a lot more emotional as a coach but I do not ever yell or direct side remarks at an umpire and I keep it short and simple.
As an aside to a previous posting I am watching a softball tournament across the screet from my office and on the near field the blue has his water bottle hanging off the baskstop right behind the plate and the only batting helmet is being worn by the pitcher (AA slo-pitch)
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