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Originally posted by tzme415
I know that I sure dislike seeing bad umpiring. And I know that noone here is talking about someone missing an occasional call. I worked a SP game alone the other night where there was line drive to the gap in left center, so I hustle out to see that the fielder traps the ball. Now I'm half way between 2nd and 3rd, I look at 2nd and the runner from 1st is on the ground just past 2nd. He gets up and makes 3rd. After the play their captain comes to me and asks didn't I see the OBS, it was right in front of you. I had to say that I was watching the ball to see if there was a catch and I missed it. Now I should have maybe had different position and anyone watching might have said I was a bad umpire. The captain did say that he didn't fault me, since I did hustle out to see the catch(trap). He also complemented me on being honest and not just telling him to go sit down. So if even after not seeing a call that would have helped his team, I get complemented - makes me wonder how bad the umpires he's had before must be.
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I can't speak for everyone, but coaches do appreciate hustle, especially when a blue is working solo.
In our area, we occasioanlly have one one umpire show up for our JV games. Sometimes the umpire stays behind home the entire game and calls everythign from there. Other times, we have a blue who will hustle out and try hard to have a good angle for plays out on the field.
At one JV game with one umpire, the umpire came up to our coach after the end of the inning to comment that he tried to get a good angle on a bang-bang play and might have missed something. Instead of arguing or being upset, coach praised him for hustling and at least trying to get a good angle.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if it's not obvious or actively recognized, coaches do appreciate umpires who hustle and strive for consistency, even if it gets lost in all the arguing
