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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
"Umpire" being the operative word here. These are children, masquerading as umpires, thinking they know the rules when they don't, and disrespecting their elders. I would never use that on a "real" umpire. Besides, real umpires would know I'm an umpire in most cases.
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Gotta disagree here. If they're on the field, they're real umpires. I know some are better than others, but they're still 'real' umpires.
I've got to say, I'm shocked that it took until GA Umpire's initial response for anyone to go with the "no, you kicked the crap out of it, the way you handled that sitch." And that includes some veterans of this forum. On these boards, we've all heard/read/told war stories of parents/players/coaches that come out and hassle umpires after a game. How is this OP any different? jwwashburn had some calls he didn't like, but he waited until after the game to address it. I'm not saying he did it in a bad way, from the description he gave, but when the game's over, it's over - don't approach the umpires afterwards.
Why you didn't bother to speak up during the game is beyond me - at that age level, getting coaches to stay relatively quiet is much harder. And if you didn't want it addressed during the game, but wanted to speak to someone, go to the assignor or the head umpire for the league.
Again: approaching the umpire after the game to discuss/dispute calls == bad.
I think where SDS and others seem to have the problem is the age of the umpire, and that's wrong, too. We've had other youngsters on this forum, and they're usually encouraged, so what's the deal ripping these two? So they gave jwwashburn a face-full; so what? Are you guys saying that, if a coach had approached you after the game, you'd not give back some attitude? Jwwashburn opened to door to this problem, so he gets what he gets in return.
And this is said with my own 16-yo at home who has that much disrespect as the two umpires in question, and then some. And I'm still not ready to jump on the 'kid' umpires. The tone of some here sounds too much like the "You kids get off my lawn" attitude.