Would you Eject??

[RPatrino]

Apples, the coach would stroll to the mound without requesting "time"? How many times did he do that? That's a rarity everywhere, not just in Canada. The first time he tried that on me I would have asked him, "Hey Coach, where are you going?"

It sounds to me that you guys have let this coach get away with a lot of shennanigans in the past.

Bob P.

[LakeErieUmp]

And another bad thing about that RPatrino is not just how the coach acts around this crew but how he might act the next game. I had a 16 year old game last season where I was "warned" by another ump that one coach liked to see what he could get away with. On an easy out-stealing call at third (I'm BU) I turn around and see this coach halfway to the pitcher's mound. I informed him: (1) get off the field, and (2) if your make any sound you're gone.
Mr. Coach swallowed whatever he thought he was going to say and retreated. But for him to think he could walk out on the field like that suggests he had been allowed to.
I don't mind cleaning up my own messes. I don't like having to clean someone else's.

[3appleshigh]

True,

Now it was my first time with this coach and with this league, You all are right, I should have stopped it, But I didn't stupid mistake, obviously in regard to him I'm not alone in making. Oh well live and learn right!

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by LakeErieUmp

I don't mind cleaning up my own messes. I don't like having to clean someone else's.

Good point. We sometimes loose focus and forget that when we allow a bunch of B.S, someone else will have to clean it up later. I get tired of hearing "the last umpire we had..........."


Tim.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by BigUmp56

Good point. We sometimes loose focus and forget that when we allow a bunch of B.S, someone else will have to clean it up later. I get tired of hearing "the last umpire we had..........."


Tim.

I heard that so much lately that I addressed the problem at our last meeting. These umpires had been allowing lead-off hitters to stand near the plate timing the pitchers' warm-up throws. I kept having to tell them every half inning that this practice is not allowed at any level of baseball. The coaches come back with, "none of the other umpires........" or "we let them do this." Well, the other umpires are wrong, and I'm not having it on my ballfield.

In pro ball, the batter would get one planted in his ear if he stood there timing the pitcher and bothering his warm-ups. I explain this, and that it is not done in the big leagues, so why do they think they can do it. I tell them that in pro ball they walk from the on-deck circle to the batter's box after the catcher sends it down to second base. That is when they are introduced. And as I explain to the coaches, since this is a youth league, we can't advocate throwing at the kid's head, so we are just not going to time the pitchers. They can do all the timing they want to over by their dugout.

Sorry for the rant, but I've had it up to my head with it.