[RPatrino]

Ok, here's my 2 cents. My feeling is, if you felt that your EJ was good, why bring it to this forum for reinforcement? Obviously you felt the EJ was warranted, so who am I to disagree with you? I wasn't there. Would I EJ'd the participant in this situation, I don't know.

Our job is NOT to keep individuals in the game, our job is to CONTROL the game as a whole. You do that by taking care of problems (it's called umpiring) that need taking care of, and not ignoring them. How you do that depends on your skill set and the tools you have at your disposal. The EJ should not be your only tool. As younger umpires mature and their tool kit becomes more diverse, they have better tools at their disposal and their EJ rate tends to lower.