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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
JR, please explain how misinterpreting a rule is basically a judgment call. The pitcher was in the windup position, stepped back with his free foot, then threw to a fielder to tag Tim's son for an out. That isn't a judgment call, it is a rule misinterpretation by the umpire.
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Cool. I now know something that I didn't know before, not being an umpire. That makes it a good day.
But, that still doesn't change my opinion, Steve. Mis-interpreting a rule...hell, completely blowing a call.....is
not justification for an umpire to sit in the stands and publicly dump on a fellow umpire. Umpires, the same as all sports officials, range from excellent to horrible. And even the excellent ones might miss or screw-up a call. Publicly criticizing a fellow umpire for one bad call effectively turns that umpire into the world's worst umpire, forever, by anyone in the stands that might hear that public criticism. What you're going to hear from the other fanboys is "Even his fellow umpires think that he's terrible".
Officials in all sports are held to different standards than fans or coaches. We're the only ones that don't care who wins or loses.
Again, jmo......