Thanks Peter. You hit the nail on the head. Others were missing the point about with the who has the power issue, over whether I was being a kiss a$$ or whatever. In fact in the post where we had the discussion about the time limit being up (he started hollering at me as soon as I said ball game is why there was a discussion), it was the only thing I heard from the coach all night and it was thhe only thing we talked about. Which is funny because he supposedly did not like a call when I was field ump in the first inning of the first game and never mentioned a word to me.. I found out a couple innings later from my partner that he did say something to him.
Also I don't chit chat, kiss a$$ or anything else along those lines with coaches. If they ask a question, I will respond. If they start "chit chat" I keep it limited. All I look to do is call a good game and hopefully earn their respect as an umpire that will do so. Lord knows no one likes seeing umps on a field that cannot call worth a lick. But after this, I'm not even going to worry about that. I will call and if I feel like I called like crap then it will be from my own critique (which I am harder on myself than any coach or fan could ever be).
So after reading Peter's and Carl posts I called my assignor and told him I'll go other places instead of this one school. Down side is I call enough tourneys during the spring I may catch them in one of those. If I do, I will be the field ump per your advise again. Overall I really don't feel like I will be missing anything as they are a power team (won 2 of the last 3 state titles and something like 4 of the last 6) so most of their games are blow outs anyways.
Thanks all.
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Jim
Need an out, get an out. Need a run, balk it in.
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