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Peter i know exactly what your saying,but i'm not 30,i'm 16,and was told to zone them out and do my job. IN the first ordeal with the kid throwing his helmet,after i threw him out of the game i talked to the coach and he did personal action during the game,and then after the game saw him speaking to the parents of the player. I don't take BS but if the fans used their eye's they would have seen that infact i was right,even the first baseman know i was right,and how he probably hated the fact,he didnt make a big deal of it,neither did the coaches. The fans form out of town came to my town and thought they could run it,sit where they wanted,say what they wanted ,and think they run the place. I stood up for myself when the parents said crap and told them that if he was out i would have called him out. Call me a bad ump i really don't care,but a game that involved 10 and 11 year olds you would think the parents would have enough common sence to contain their anger and not lash out infront of the kids. The parents of the other team got into an agruement with a couple of the parents after the game.
My job is to call what i see and in both cases i was right...It's amaizing how little respect the parents have for the umps when they loose. It was hot as hell that night,the game was delayed 20 minutes because the team with the parents broke a rule but didnt think they should be penilized for it. Maybe the parents should have been mad at the coaches for putting the team in that position and screaming at the catcher so many times to throw it to second when a kid is stealing. Somehow screaming at the kid to the point he throws it to loose the game is somehow my fault,because the shortstop didnt make a clean throw to the first baseman on the very play before...
My boss said i did the right thing by not starting anything,and standing up for myself. The other ump who was an adult also said i handled it well considering,and we both warned the coaches several times to settle the parents down.
Not my problem if the coach can't control his parents. Maybe i should have done more,but if a coach notices his parents getting of control he should do it,expecually after being asked by the umps to settle them down...
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