Dealing with your partner

[BJ Moose]

Originally posted by official88
when my position is the Plate Umpire, I have had "veteran" partners who just seem to take control right from the meeting with the caoches at home plate As the man behind the dish, I feel that is I who should run the meeting at the plate and have the coaches address any concerns to me.

Third year ain't new. And those GVs are full of @#% and need to be taken to task.

I can't imagine the guys so crusty that they won't allow a pregame. But @#% em. YOU do a pregame and you tell them matter of factly that the plate meeting is yours to conduct and they are to keep their pieholes shut, until you say, "Bobo, anything we missed?" at the conclusion YOUR plate meeting.

This is very high on my list of "50 Ways to Piss Off Your Partner."

This is assuming, of course, that you have the ability and knowledge to conduct a proper and professional plate meeting. I assume you do.. these Crusty guys just like to hear themselves talk.

Wow 88.. ONE POST... with some of the BS nonsense going on in other threads... I would expect a new guy to get scared off.

Mike Branch
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