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I always get a kick out of a coach who will delay a game, argue, and then say, "It's not about you" to the umpire. My first thought is, "Well, it's not about you, either."
In my opinion, there's two big lessons you can learn from this:
(1) When it's you against the world, back the world.
(2) Life's too short to umpire for idiots like this.
We umpire 9-10 year olds during the District and State LL tourneys. The coaches are expected to stay in the dugout -- it's mentioned at the coach's meeting and, guess what, they *stay in the dugout*. If they don't, a quick reminder from us yields a quick apology and life goes on. Of course, there's no doubt whatsoever from day one that the inmates aren't running the asylum.
Last edited by Rich; Fri Jun 15, 2012 at 07:41am.
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