[tcarilli]

Dude if you are happy doing the job of the administrator, well then god bless you. It seems that you are pretty sure that you've got all the answers which, I guess, is OK for a young umpire (or someone who is new to umpiring, which is the same thing). We have a enough to do on the field without concerning ourselves with the stands, I think. But the rules makers and administrators (league or tournament or whatever) are happy having us be the bad guys...do you blame them? Really, who wants to be the bad guy? Certaintly not the administrators or nongame officials. It's really a simple case of pushing the cost of something on to somebody else. Some of us gladly accept that cost, while others of us don't or won't. Doing our jobs on the field is usually enough to make alot of the fans mad at us, why go stick your head into the lion's mouth if you don't have to?

Finally, I can assure you this, if your goal is to move up beyond put-a-bunch-of-letters-together baseball you really shouldn't conern yourself with fans...period.

Tony