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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
Tee should NOT go out and talk to the officials as an umpire but as a COACH. Tee can speak for himself but IMO he was referring to the MANNER in which he might come out and talk to the officials and that MANNER is not Bobby Cox like who holds the record for getting tossed. That IMO is what Tee was referring to.
I believe most of us do not want a coach giving us an "umpire lecture" out there on the field similar to us as officials telling a coach how to coach his team.
As I stated in a previous post, each particpant in the game has a separate and distinct function. If Tee does decide to take the coaching job his job is that of a COACH and not an umpire. If he does in fact request TIME and talk to the officials he talks to them in a civil tone (which I believe Tee would) BUT talks to them as a coach NOT an umpire. Obviously it can help your team when you are an umpire and KNOW the rules, BUT the bottom line is you are now the COACH with a different role.
Pete Booth
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In was not referring to Tee "going out" on the umpires. I interpreted his post as saying he had not yet decided to take the coaching position. Tee's reputation is based on an incredibly solid body of work as an umpire and I was just voicing my hope that he when he left baseball, it would be as an umpire, not a coach.