Player Ejection Volume II

[His High Holiness]

Originally posted by Kaliix
Just out of curiousity, what was it about the home plate umpire that sucked so bad that you were going to chew his a$$ after the game?

I would really like to know so that I may avoid such things in the future.

[/B][/QUOTE]

Kaliix;

He completely missed two catcher's interference calls. From down at third in position D, I could tell that he missed both of them. The second was so gross that the catcher's mitt was torn off and thrown 6 feet. As everyone yelled at him, I wandered in near the mound as if to say

"Buddy, you better get some help cause I have it."

He finally motioned us in and my partner and I gave him some much needed help. He changed the call to catcher's interference and the other coach did not say a word.

He called several worm burners strikes.

On a nut cutter fail/foul call, he weakly yelled foul and few heard it. I had called the BR out at second before everyone realized that he had called foul and we had to send the BR back to bat. No one was happy. One run and an out were taken off of the board. (After the game, I was told that the videotape showed the ball was fair.)

He allowed the pitcher to argue with him. It should have been an immediate ejection. (Maybe not, because the PU had just balled a cock shot.)

A batter threw a small temper tantrum at home plate after a swinging strike out. This should have been an immediate ejection. These two incidents were a direct result of his not controlling the game.

He allowed some minor crap to come out of the dugouts but my partner and I shut it down after he failed to deal with it.

On the plus side; he LOOKS like a good umpire when calling balls and strikes. He has the right look, which so many lack.

Also, he stopped an illegal substitution which many umpires would have missed. The coach tried an illegal reentry, and the official scorekeeper in the press box let it happen.

Peter



[Edited by His High Holiness on Jul 12th, 2004 at 01:35 PM]