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Originally Posted by BigUmp56
Yes, I'm a sports official, but first and foremost I'm a parent. Before you once again puff out your chest and tell me how much you would have done, let me ask you a simple question. Do you have any of your own sons that play the game of baseball? If so, have you ever seen them called out on a manifestly wrong call in a game that was very important to them?
Tim.
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Nope, no kids of my own. But I have coached girlfriends kids, and have had a vested interest in their success.
What bugs me is that YOU have the responsibility to handle this situation correctly, you didn't, you admit it, but you are still trying to justify it. What that tells me is that you don't really have any sincerity in your admission that you did anything wrong. That fact that you even question where you deserved his response or not tells me the same thing.
You should really think that all through. Your one little comment that you made to make yourself feel better for a brief amount of time caused a LOT of grief to a fellow official, and possibly made his job harder to perform because of it's slanderous nature from an "expert" (which is what bias parents of teammates of you son believe you to be, even though they should know better than to think you can have ANY kind of unbiased outlook on the situation while your son is playing...
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Then you come on here blasting him some more. What is next? You gonna post his name so we can all seek him out to heckle him during a game?
You are in NO position to defend yourself. You crack open ANY Code of Ethics for ANY of the rule books you ump games under, and I am sure there will be something about your publicly criticizing and/or making disparaging comments about a fellow official.
Trying to defend it on an internet BBS more or less convinces me that you might be just a TAD bit crazy!
