I'm with Fronny and BlueZ on this. JF is a player, and PU is, well, PU. I'd gift him some "choice words" too. And then totally narc on him to the assignor.
Here's my "blue line" (and I don't play anymore):
- I support my partners to the hilt (unless they botch a rule)--before, after and during a game
- I don't say a peep when I'm in the stands and anybody from my association is working, or I have any remote connection with the game
- If it's a pro or stadium game, I will toss a barb at an ump I feel is incompetent, without any of the 3 P's.
Perhaps I wouldn't have chirped to the ump in JF's place. But I sure would have gone to the assignor.
I worked with a Smitty-in-waiting whom I thought did an absolutely horrendous plate job the other day. I called the UIC that day and threw pard under the bus.
Ace Ratowski