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Originally Posted by rei
My thoughts exactly.
I have said it before, and I will say it again. Most of these "rats", if you met them at a bar and started talking baseball with them, you would probably buy them a round!
There are a few coaches who I do not like at all. They have bad reputations concerning pushing umpires right up to a point just before ejecting.
But, I still don't call them "rats". They are coaches/managers. There are Assistant Coaches, and Players, and Fans. Everybody has roles and jobs in baseball.
I have read NOWHERE in a rule book about "rats".  |
Pre-touchy-feely cumbaya singing umpiring came into vogue, they used to teach in umpire school that all coaches are "c*ock s*ckers" and "rats," and that every player is a "rat." That seemed to be how a lot of us learned this back in the 70s and 80s. I guess old habits die hard.
But I have never used this kind of terminology to a coach, manager, or player's face, just out of professional courtesy. Kind of like why sharks don't eat lawyers.
Walt, you're right. Some people haven't earned the right to use the term yet.