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I does bare repeating even one more time, Don't Get personal Or BLAME the ump for the result of the game. You will have a zillion chances where the ump is not involved in the process to blame him because one went wrong in your opinion is silly. Also DO NOT HAVE A MEMORY, we can't neither should you, previous calls and previous games do not exhist.
eg. in a game recently I had a Batter's interferance call. Batter out R1 sent back, it was the 6th inning of a 7 inning game, Close game and an easy straight forward call. Coach comes and complains, could have given heave ho, as he got personal near the end, but was not worth it. Inning ends no runs scored, 7th inn, same team gets R2 next batter singles to outfield and the coach holds the runner @ 3rd. No reason why, fielders never showed the ability to throw to a cut-off let alone gun someone at the plate. Only 1 out, next batter walks. So bases loaded, 1 out next player K's and final player gounds out 4-3. Game over. Coach (same coach) from 3rd, walks past me and says Thanks for ruining a great game blue. I laugh, and he says, that was the tying run. I laugh again and walk away. My "Correct" call did not effect the game as much as the Coach blunder or the last two batters, nor did it effect the previous 5 innings. So don't blame us because you disliked 1 of the 350+ calls in the game. Also If you don't like a call go home and grab a rulebook and check it out I did that night simply because there was an arguement over it.
On a side note, again they had to keep their memory going as I did another game for them the next day, 2 coaches ended up getting the boot. I'll give the scenario on that too. Some on here will disagree but it is something I believe in, but am beginning to lighten up on. But on the third batter of the day, he gets hit with an inside fastball to the elbow. I felt he made no attempt to move might have even leaned in slightly. I keep him in the box. Coach (different one from night before) comes out to argue, Screams "what Happened", I say he made no attempt to move, the coach is still 10 ft+ away from me and says what is this a new rule, what does he have to do this, And wiggles and bends down till his butt hits his shoes and stands up does a full body shimmy, I say See ya. !st he is Shocked this got him ejected. Then he starts screaming about how I screwed them the night before la la la. Other coach comes running in from 1st, (from night before) He pushes his ejected coach away and walks to me calmly. Asks why, I tell him he disagrees, we have a short discussion and it is over, meanwhile the 3rd base coach has come down to cheak on the now feining injured kid. As 1st base walks away, 3rd base heads back toward his spot crossing over the plate turns to me and says in an agressive manner "We don't need your Patronizing attitude" I infrom him we no longer need his services, he gets in my face we have a little screaming match and he departs. The most amazing and tragic part was that the kid with r2/r1, hits a rocket down third baseline, Third catches it tags R2, and throws to R1 for the triple play. Kid hit was the teams catcher, (a fantastic little ballplayer) and the team went on to win 8-1. All the while the fans were screaming about how I need to let the boys play, and no one is here to see me. In both games they had the "bigger" strike zone due in large part to their great catcher, but those two calls made me swayed against them.
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