Hey, youre only a rat and a troll.
At least youre not a lowly Little League or even worse - softball umpire (like me), then you'd really feel the wrath of the omnipotent Tim C.
The coaches thing probably has to do with a few things:
1) worse than us umpires that refuse to learn to score keep (scorekeeping has nothing to do with what I do, nor do I care what the player/game stats are) are coaches that cannot pick up a rule book on the game they are pretending to TEACH.
2) On MB's we can tell the coaches what we are thinking. On the field, umpires let a LOT go by and certainly express very little opinion. We dont have to take your stupid crap when we arent on the field. You're standing behind the plate and an alleged "coach" screams "blue hands are part of the bat"... many things pass through your mind that you dont say. Here we just tell you what a moron you are. Thats the difference.
Regarding Assistant coaches - you can exist, just keep your mouth closed when it comes to the umpire. I'm not going to allow a 1st and 3rd base "snipe and gripe" team up of coach and asst coach vs PU. So one must be in check from start - that one is the assistant coach. It's about game control. You've obviously never been behind the plate with an idiot on your left AND right whimpering non stop, if you had - you would know why assistant coaches are in check. It gets old quick. If you want to be ALLOWED to speak, become a head coach.
You'll just delete this thread too probably as you are just sniveling, but I thought I'd waste some band width and respond a little.