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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
"How can one actually justify running a coach for something said in the parking lot before the game? I could see myself trying to explain my way out of that one. "
The coach walks out to your car and tells you that he is going to file a letter of complaint with your assignor. He calls you the biggest pile of beetle sh-t he's ever seen. He looks at your partner and tells him that you don't belong working t-ball games after the last few games he's seen. He mentions a play you know you kicked and one that he is dead wrong about. It doesn't matter because he is spitting mad and cursing up a storm. He looks at you and says that he wishes you'd pull a "McSherry" right there in front of his team. He walks back to the field and into his dugout. At the plate meeting, he is accompanied by his assistant and team captain. The team captain hands you the line up card and the assistant explains the ground rules. The head coach just stares at you. He never says a word and the other coaches don't have any sense of any animosity. The meeting ends and he walks away with out shaking hands. He goes into the dugout and doesn't say a word. He just stares at you, smiling about that letter he's composing in his head.
Do you still feel you should be better served ignoring it? Sure you could bait him, but what if he doesn't bite? You call him over to discuss a line up card question and he sends the assistant. You ask for more baseballs and he sends the kid on the bench. He keeps both feet in the coachs' box and never says a peep to or at you. If you pull the trigger at anytime after it starts it makes you look like a newbie with a hardon for the guy. Explaining your actions at the plate meeting is a lot easier than baiting him and having two coaches think you're clueless.
Like I said before, I wasn't there and don't know the history, but if he felt it necessary to dump the chump, he was correct. My trigger is pretty well guarded, but if my buttons get pushed...
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First, these things were not said in the example given. All the coach said was something like "not you again." If a coach went as far as to threaten me with complaint forms or to curse me, then I'm not putting up with that bullsurf at all. The original comment was what I was refering to, but you have now flipped the script and added variables of which I was not addressing with my quoted comment. Since you were not astute enough to figure this out to begin with, I will restate it in terms that will draw you a diagram:
"How can one actually justify running a coach for saying "Oh, not you again" the parking lot before the game? I could see myself trying to explain my way out of that one."
Where I come from, we don't have coaches stupid enough to approach umpires in the parking lot prior to games to start with. But if they did, and made a remark like that, it would not cause me to blow a fuse. If I thought the coach was serious, he wouldn't last long once I got on the field anyway.