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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
Okay, that comment was only 10% serious. If it's a simple d@mn it, I definitely let it go. When they drop a very loud "f-bomb," I have a hard time just letting it slide, especially at the league I previously mentioned. It's not that I have sensitive ears. You should hear me at work when someone breaks their computer. "I have to go unf*** So-and-So's computer." However, if I don't enforce the rule in that league, I won't be asked to call there again.
*shrug* Not my rule. I just enforce it.
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See... this is part of the problem. YOU "definitely let go" a simple d@mmit. Someone else may not. Any profanity rule, unless it's VERY detailed, down to the words which are outlawed, and which languages they are outlawed in, is inherently going to be called differently from umpire to umpire.
I was ejected in just such a league for saying, conversationally with my pitcher ("Stop throwing that crap" when he was trying some spinball he couldn't get over), the word CRAP. Ejected. Not two days later, an opposing batter was not even talked to when he yelled the F-Bomb after he hit a popup. Why? Because THAT umpire felt that he was yelling at himself and his utterance didn't meet his definition of profanity.
That inequity is what makes 99.99% of the profanity rules out there bad rules.
Besides ... we are there to call the game. Words are just words - and have nothing to do with safe/out, ball/strike, interference/obstruction. You want language police out there? Define the rules IN SPECIFIC, or it will not be called uniformly.