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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
...are usually worthless.
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Agreed. How are they supposed to evaluate if they have not been trained to do so. Furthermore, I think they are kind of busy coaching.
A few years back, I got great evalations except for three schools. I called up the state and I said: That would be this school, this one and this one, right?
The guy said: "Um, let me cross reference your ejections reports...
" He agreed to take out those and my top three.
That year, I got a five game ejection on a coach: First game of a tournament he screams about strike three from the 3rd base box and was halfway down the line before i could toss him...he actually was running at me on a strike in the FIRST inning...bizarre! So, the rule(Mught have been state, might have been NFHS) was Today(3 games of the tournament) AND the next day of competition-Double header a few days later. yeah, pretty bad evaluation from THAT guy!
I think that if an umpire got a lot of "unprofessional" grades from coaches, that would probably be the indication of something real, though...but they graded us on positioning? Are you kidding me?