Many umpires in my association want to chat between innings. This has a couple of consequences: by "doing it right," I sometimes seem stand-offish by comparison. Also, coaches expect the umpires to be accessible.
More than once an inning has ended with a banger, and I've had a base coach say, "yeah, you'd better run away" as I headed out to right field. His status for the remainder of the game depended on whether anyone but me could hear him.
