Problems at the plate meeting...

[David B]

Originally posted by jicecone
SUCK IT UP

You blew the call BIG time. The manager wasn't talking to you.

Being wrong is one thing. Being wrong and arrogant is totally different.

If you can't take a little heat. Get the hell out of the kitchen.

Most importantly. Learn from your mistakes. Tossing the coach will just confirm what he already thinks. Be above that and send him home on YOUR TERMS, not his.

What a great post. Too many times umpires are so easy to let coaches bait them into what the coach wanted all along.

I would never give a coach such pleasure. I'm sure experience has something to do with it, but if a coach is tossed its always going to be on my terms.

Two things:

1)If the coach knew it was you then he was baiting you - and the coach isn't going to win that one.

2) If he didn't then simply agree with him. I've had the same type situation happen with me and my comment was "coach maybe he was an ***, but today we're not worrying about that. The rule books says ..." and we continued. Coach never did catch on that it was I who made the call.

Same thing when a coach wants to be thrown out of the game. It's not his choice, its mine. I've left many a coach in the game simply because I wanted him to have to sit through the same sorry playing that I had to. (Of course it was his team that was stinking up the joint)

But, once the coach shows his true colors, then be on the alert, he's going to push again soon.

Thanks
David