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Originally posted by cbfoulds
DownTown:
HOWEVER, unless I actually started to hear crap from the dugout or the squirel behind the screen, I'd be inclined to ignore it [some coach "checking out" the zone I'm calling]. I can think of any number of legitimate coaching reasons, having nothing at all to do with griping about my calls, that might motivate such an act. In my area, we let [like we have a choice] spectators sit there & "comment" on the zone, after all.
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I agree w/CB on this. Although we also allow people to sit behind the screen, I won't take any comments from a coach from back there. I had the original sit happen once but started hearing chirping from behind me. I ignored it till I heard "Don't throw another curve, he doesn't know what one looks like!" I turned around to get a look at who it was and realized it was one of the coaches, and it was also the dad of the F1. Called time and went to the fence and told him "you have a choice to make, either get in the dugout or go the the parking lot!" He picked the dugout. Later that night in the parking lot, had the guy drives over to my car while I was changing clothes and gives me a verbal backhanded apology.
Says that he was sorry about the abuse, ... the tells me that he has umpired alot as well and knows good pitches when he sees them, and then drives off while I'm just standing there. I really wanted to tell him that the only way his kid was going to get the ball across the plate was to hand it to the catcher!!