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You're going to stand there for TEN MINUTES and watch this go on? Now THAT is just plain silly!
What if he wants to stand there and talk for 15 minutes? A half hour? At what point is stepping in "undermining his authority"?
If he has allowed this farce to go on for ten minutes, he himself has undermined his own "authority" long before that point.
Waiting a couple of minutes is not "diving in too soon".
Straight from the book- Section 2: Pre-Equisites For Good Umpiring: 8) Game Management: Keep the game moving.
If my partner will not- within reason, and ten minutes is not within reason- then I will.
What if my partner did blow the call? That doesn't give the coach free reign to stand on his soapbox for ten minutes. Note that in my post I said that, after waiting a few minutes, I would ask what is the hold-up, then IF THERE IS NO FURTHER NEED FOR ME TO INTERJET (ie: the coach is just arguing some invalid point), I get him off the field and on with the game.
If, on the other hand, there might be some legitimate problem with the call, my partner and I will discuss it- alone, away from the coach. We'll hash it out just like you're supposed to, and then the game will proceed.
And it won't take us any ten minutes.
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