[Dakota]

Originally Posted by JefferMC

I was the problem fan about 5 games earlier on that field.

Fairly early in that game, we have a swing-and-a-miss strike 3 with one out and 1B empty. (The ball bounces on the dirt just before reaching F2's glove, which batter didn't see.) Batter heads for dugout, but OC stops her half way to the 3B dugout and tells her calmly to get on 1B. When the player reaches 1B, PU says she has to leave the base, she's out. OC asks why. PU says she didn't head straight for first. OC says that's not the rule, she never entered the team area. PU says she doesn't have to. OC says you're wrong. PU says, you're gone. OC then says you're the worst umpire he's seen in years and leaves.

I send my son for my rulebook in the car so I can, and eventually do between innings, yell the appropriate rule number for the PU to check out after the game. I'm sure he did

Later in that same game, we have another D3K with no outs, but runners on 1B and 2B. BR in this case heads for 1B at a run and R1 and R2 make for 3B and 2B. DC gets time and complains that the new R3 is out because 1B was occupied with less than 2 outs. PU agrees, and says that R1 and R2 have to return to their original bases. Me (and a bunch of other OT fans) start getting rowdy, but in this case the BU comes down and has a conference with PU and corrects him, returning the runners to 3B and 2B. Since I already have the book in my hands, I yell out that rule reference for the PU's benefit, too.

You do realize you may, in fact, have incited the idiot fan...