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We have flyers posted around the field asking for people to sign up as volunteer umpires. When I have the situation you describe, I will usually ask someone I know who is watching the game (board member, coach, wife, whatever...) to politely walk over to the offender and say to him:
"Say you seem like someone who knows his baseball. Would you be interested in becoming an umpire?" Then they hand him a flyer. That tends to quiet them down pretty quickly.
The one that amazes me is we have one guy in our league who is an umpire himself and when he comes to games he is the worst of anyone. I asked him about it one day when we crewed together, and he told me that he thought antagonizing the umpires was part of the fun of watching the game. And this when he was about to take the field as an umpire himself! Go figure. I don't crew with him anymore.
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David A. Brand
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