mental mistakes by umpires = ejections

[His High Holiness]

Originally posted by jicecone

Hey Peter, If YOUR shoe fits YOUR foot, then by all means were it. I know where you stand on this and can care less what your feelings are about those that disagree. I keep people in the game, don't take any crap and I'm dam good at what I do. That doesn't even take in consideration how good of an umpire I am either.

So Peter please, don't preach your umpiring whatever you may call it to me because, I'm only about 150,000% positive I would out umpire your type, any day of the week. Sound Cocky,, YOU BET

My, my, aren't we sensitive today. Defensive too, I might add.

You felt perfectly entitled to put down Gordon with a smug post for your perceived biases of his umpiring. However, when someone turns the tables and does it to you, you become all huffy.

I have trained hundreds of umpires and supervised or assigned probably 600-800 over the years. The go along and get along umpires like you have a valuable place in our organization. They form the majority of the staff and are the bread and butter of the operation. It's great for customer service.

There are just not suitable for the big time, that's all.

Jon Bible et al, can umpire with few ejections. They use their reputations to control the mob. Umpires who strictly work in season high school and conference college baseball, use the high school ADs and threat of NCAA sanctions to accomplish the same thing.

Summer ball/rec ball umpires have very little behind them other than their own skills as a diplomat or an a$$hole, depending on the situation. When I see those umpires with a low ejection count, I know that they are passing their responsibilities on to others or...

...their name is Jon Bible, Dave Yeast, Bob Gustin, or any of about 100 other umpires with a known reputation. Are you claiming that you are in that category of umpire?

Peter