[bkbjones]

OK, call me an ***, I don't care, but this is a real life play from 3 years ago. Somewhere on some computer I have six frames of photos of this play, the crappy mechanics by the BU, etc.

Working a very important game, last regular season game of the year. I am PU, and Sucky Stinky is BU. Anyway, he blows a call by misinterpreting a rule. Off. coach comes sprinting out of the dugout. This is a guy with a pretty good rep for dealing well with umpires, so for him to sprint out there means he saw the same thing I did.

Partner gets into it with him, and is the antagonist. He explains why he made the call, totally misinterpreting the rule no matter the ruleset (this was NFHS). Coach, who also know the rule book better than many umpires, immediately says he is going to play the game under protest.

At that point I interject myself and tell him no, he's not, this was a rule interpretation issue and we are going to correct it right now. I cover for partner as best I can, and fortunately he keeps his mouth shut.

I am not saying what I did is appropriate for every situation, but it was for that one IMHO.