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Originally posted by mcrowder
Dude - first I want to ignore the banter between post one and the rest of the posts to this point, and actually answer your question.
You ask us how you could have handled this better.
1 - I would not have said a word to the batter... but I wasn't there. If you absolutely HAD to prove to this 12 year old that you were the bigger man, at least confine your comments to facts, and not advice. "Swing the bat" is DEFINITELY coaching, and you've given the coach every reason to tell you to do YOUR job and let him do HIS. Perhaps "Those are strikes, son," would be better... or if the eye-rolling is what you wanted to stop, perhaps just, "Most umpires would toss you for that eye-rolling. You might want to not do that anymore."
2 - the coach. If this was the manager, you gave him too much leeway. This being the @$$istant coach, you gave him way way way way way too much leeway. An @$$istant coach deserves, AT BEST (and only when being ENTIRELY civil) a very short explanation of a situation, and then "Coach, we're done - if your team really needs to discuss this more, it needs to come from your manager." In this case (where he was NOT being civil), he should have been gone much much much earlier. Change him to the manager, and he gets tossed at the finger pointing.
On the other hand, you DID screw up by coaching the kid, and that was the coach's beef. So, if this was the manager, he might deserve a "Coach - you're right. I won't coach your kids. Now lets play ball." (again... only if he came out very civilly).
Now - on to the banter. Honestly, you need to back it down about 5 notches. You came here SPECIFICALLY asking for other umpires' input on your actions, and then proceed to blast every single person (with maybe 2 exceptions throughout the entire thread) who gave you input on your actions.
So, knowing your attitude from previous posts, can you at least maybe see why you get blistered so much when you post idiotic comments, or why you got called on the carpet for the lies (which were obvious based solely on YOUR OWN posts).
Show some deference to your superiors (includes ALMOST everyone here - maybe not dumbdrum) and you'll find you will learn a lot more and might actually BE one of those superiors in 5 years or so.
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Will do Crowder. Thank you for the advice.