OBR 6.08b

[jkumpire]

I didn't eject him becuase he is a good friend of mine who I repect a lot as a gentleman, and because he really doesn't know how deal with umpires. Is that bad umpiring practice? Yes it is, but in this case it doesn't matter to me. There are times where friendship comes before proper mechanics. I was trying to educate a friend who needed to learn something.

Is that consistent? No. Should you do what I did last night? No. Would I do it with any other person I have ever met in baseball? No. I made an exception because I thought I could trust him to have a calm conversation about it.

I've had my share of ejections with coaches and managers being stupid and bringing a rulebook out. It was not worth losing a
friendship over it. The conversation will continue privately between the two of us.

I still have not had my question answered totally yet, so let me rephrase it: Does OBR intrepret this rule differently than FED? My understanding is that it does. If our good friend Mr. Childress is right and OBR is treated the same as FED in this case, than I have to change my understanding of the rule.

Thank you for your kind responses.



[Edited by jkumpire on Jul 4th, 2005 at 01:15 PM]