The series began 12 August 2002.

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BTW: The best advice for calling games for a team/coach/town that don't like you: Stay the hell away!

I have a great fondness for something my mentor said many seasons ago: "Don't make trouble for yourself." Implicit in Mr. Mosqueda's admonition is this: "Others will make more trouble than you need."

sorry crowder, just asking man. Figured I would get the professional umpires response so I could get some good advice. I had to dump a couple the other day and I just wanted to see if I met the criteria

Thanks Peter. You hit the nail on the head. Others were missing the point about with the who has the power issue, over whether I was being a kiss a$$ or whatever. In fact in the post where we had the discussion about the time limit being up (he started hollering at me as soon as I said ball game is why there was a discussion), it was the only thing I heard from the coach all night and it was thhe only thing we talked about. Which is funny because he supposedly did not like a call when I was field ump in the first inning of the first game and never mentioned a word to me.. I found out a couple innings later from my partner that he did say something to him.
Also I don't chit chat, kiss a$$ or anything else along those lines with coaches. If they ask a question, I will respond. If they start "chit chat" I keep it limited. All I look to do is call a good game and hopefully earn their respect as an umpire that will do so. Lord knows no one likes seeing umps on a field that cannot call worth a lick. But after this, I'm not even going to worry about that. I will call and if I feel like I called like crap then it will be from my own critique (which I am harder on myself than any coach or fan could ever be).

So after reading Peter's and Carl posts I called my assignor and told him I'll go other places instead of this one school. Down side is I call enough tourneys during the spring I may catch them in one of those. If I do, I will be the field ump per your advise again. Overall I really don't feel like I will be missing anything as they are a power team (won 2 of the last 3 state titles and something like 4 of the last 6) so most of their games are blow outs anyways.

Thanks all.

Good post, but you held out on us about the level of the team. That explains everything to me.

We have very good baseball in our area, as good as anywhere in the US teams always in the top 30 nationwide, but the one thing I've learned is that the coaches on
those teams like to think they "hung the moon."

They usually think they can treat umpires like they want and get what they want. Thank goodness our association as a group has not bowed to the pressure and as one coach told me recently, "I get treated better when I'm out of town than when I'm at home"

but as I reminded him, and you also are always complaining about the level of officiating when you are out of town.

Good luck
Thanks
David

I would never ask my assignor not to assign a particular team's games.