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Sorry, Tim, but I don't agree with your above comments, for to act that way is only going to end up inflaming even more said person.
If a player gets rung up on a good pitch and biatches about it and doesn't get ejected by the plate umpire, that's my plate umpire partner's problem. However, when this player runs onto the field to begin the next inning, for example, and comes to me and emphatically says, "Your partner's a piece of schit," I will eject him.
Yes, they explain this at umpire school, but I didn't have to go to school to learn this.
Yes, someone who says this lacks the guts to tell my partner himself, but he's probably telling me, assuming he cannot get ejected because he's saying this to another umpire and not the one who rung him up. Sorry, but he assumed wrong. I don't look for ejections, but in this case, said player or coach has earned the right to get booted.
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