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Originally Posted by kylejt
I hope I never allow a game to get so out of hand that I'd even consider it. If a game DID so badly out of control that I'd consider it, I'd hope I have the common sense to never actually do it.
And if I actually carried out a F$#@ Y#$ Call to a player, coach, manager, bench or bleacher section, I'd hope I'd have the decency to end my career as an umpire, for I have surely failed at any sort of game management or honor to the game.
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Is the air thin up there on your high horse?
Also, "
allow a game to get so out of hand"? Really? If I had known that it was me and my partner that let the scores run up, I'd have been doing stuff about it. This year, I had a 24-0 JV game; part of the problem was talent, but part of it was the weather - the losing team not only had some players 'called up' to varsity that day for the varsity make-up game being played, but the JV had played twice already that week. But I'm not sure my partner and I had it get out of hand.
Our men's league here has this idiotic policy of every team plays every other team, regardless of division, at least once. So I had the joy (on the weekend where they play a single 9-inning game, thus the 10-run inning is the 7th) of being part of a 50-1 score. As God is my witness, I'm not making the score up. And you know what? It wasn't even
THAT close.
That's where I nearly got me a form of FY call. Game's out of hand, but a guy tries to steal 2B, for reasons only known to him. As I kept my chest to the ball, letting it turn me, I had already decided "if the infielder catches this ball, I'm getting me an out." That was even before I'd seen how close it might be. Unfortunately, although it certainly would have been close enough to get, the fielder let it get away - par for the course for that day.
Is that against your code of honor? Your mileage may vary.