[GarthB]

Originally Posted by CO ump

For the sake of consistency I have to say something.
This forum is chock full of posts referring to other umpires and smittys that make bad interps, have bad game management skills or generally make incorrect or bad decisions and the folks on this forum are always complaining that "they" have to clean up the mess after such bad umpiring has left the wrong impression with coaches and or players. The general concenus is always that it would be nice if that didn't happen so there would be no mess to clean. This sitch is no different
I agree that in the whole scheme of things this isn't a big deal, but very little on the board is, in the whole scheme of things, however, the sitch btdt is referiing to is bad mechanics, it's not teaching the younger umpire proper responsibility, (which may encourage him to pass the buck on another ump as well) and definitely giving the coach the impression that BU makes that call(which may or may not cause a brief discussion with another crew at another time)
Frankly I'm surprised that more people haven't chimed in on this.
In this type of situation:
Can an umpire ever take another umps call, without permission, and be justified?

If after a conference, your partner went directly to the offended coach made your call and managed the resulting situation with the coach without your permission, how would you react?

If you'll read the posts you'll see that the questions posed by the OP were answered by several of us prior to the current diversion.