Issued my first Forfeit yesterday

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Originally Posted by nickrego

To top it all off, the home team was a Christian school.

Just because it was a Chrsitian school doesn't mean that the catcher and the coach were Chrsitians. I do a bunch of games for some of the local Christian schools. If this were to happen here either the ump or the scheduler or both would talk with school administration. All of the local Chrsitian schools have written policies that this will not be toleratred and that they will deal with the offender should any issues arise that would show negatively on the Christian faith. As a Christian I do believe that we Chrsitians are held to a higher standard. We not only need to adhere to the general sportsmanship rules be we are also called to adhere to the teachings of Jesus Christ which teach both absoloute and unbiased fairness and the call to hold our temper in check.

I believe the greatest strength as an umpire is that I know that as a Chrsitian I not only have to answer to my partner, the coaches, and my assigner but I have to both answer to God and to judge my fairness in calling a game by God's standards.