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Originally Posted by greymule
I have seen people sent home on more than one occassion and others told to just stay at the hotel if travel arrangements are already booked.
For calls on the field?
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When they were outrageous and out of line with an attitude like our resident troll exemplifies, absotlutely!
I have worked between 35 to 40 Nationals over the years and as a co ordinator at quite a few others. Over all of those years, it has gotten less common to send them home but being sent to the hotel or left in the umpire room seems to be gaining prominence again.
If you can't get with the program and keep an attitude of cooperation with the UIC and other blues, many of the Regional staff and other UICs have no use for you.
I agree with them.
The worst behaviors need to be weeded out, a National is the place to have and show the best, not juvenille and ill prepared umpires.
There was one National that I was at where an umpire was sent home right after the umpire meeting because he was more interested in talking than in listening to the UIC.
For the most part, the umpires thanked the UIC for taking that action.