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Originally posted by jumpmaster
This was his premise -
In amatuer baseball, mental mistakes by the umpire result in more ejections than player/coach snafus. i.e. An umpire makes a bang, bang call - in amatuer ball - he will probably get the call wrong. An umpire's gross miss on a pitch will bring the coach out to argue, resulting in an ejection. Granted things like BR dropping a shoulder into F3 to break up a play will also result in ejections, but these are the exception rather than the rule.
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I would lean to the coach not knowing the rules or just wanting to make an a$$ outta himself as being the main reason. Yeah sometimes it is a blown call on a judgement call that gets the coach going. He also has the ability to stop and keep himself from being dumped.
I had a situation where I rushed a catch/no catch on a shoe-string catch (I ruled it a catch initially). It really made no difference on the play as the runner on first was and would have been forced at second requardless if I had kept my proper timing. Well the coach for the offensive team questioned me on it and I admitted my mistake but also told him that even if I kept my timing the runner would have been out at second. Well that was not good enough for him and he kept on. So even tho I made the mistake, he could have stopped and it would have kept him in the ballgame.
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FWIW, I subscribe to HHH's theory of "eject early and often because I like quiet, peaceful games" and I believe that coaches and players will usually do something to warrant their early departure.
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I don't feel that there is the need for this really. I call this the terrorist approach to game control. Act like a terrorist long enough and people will be afraid of you. IE dump coaches for any reason and they will be afraid to question anything, thus you get your way. Instead hustle, work hard, learn the rules, look good and be consistant. I have earned respect from coaches, players and my fellow umpires and have had to dump 2 coaches (tho a few other deserved to be) and about 8 or 10 players (all but 1 were little kids for sportmanship issues (ie throwing a bat or glove) and 2 for malicious contact.)