Players DO get fined and reprimanded for this- in what they lovingly call KANGAROO COURT...and to that end, our umpire's association has implemented it as well.
Miss a rotation? Face a penalty.
Exceedingly poor calls? Penalty.
Over-calling games? Penalty.
Showing up late? Penalty.
And so on.

Penalties are, for the most part, mild enough to still be humorous, but 'stiff' enough to get attention. Most of them are just for kicks- forcing them to show up early, or teach the association the positioning that they missed, or shine theirs AND their partner's shoes.
The point is not to punish, but to point out areas where people need work,and draw attention to it in a fun way, rather than have people talk about it behind people's backs.

The umpires don't work for the league, they work for the umpires association, which is contracted by the league- so any evaluation or disciplining that needs to be done will be done by the employer- the umpire's association.


Bainer.

SD Steve,

I believe, if you read the post in question carefully, you will see that it was posed as a "hypothetical".

Besides, I'm sure that any manager worth his salt who would pull such a boneheaded "error of omission" when his players had played so well (and the umpiring was truly "top notch"), would already feel pretty miserable about it - so I don't see the point of further emabarrassing him in a public forum such as this by mentioning his name. :o

Besides, anyone can make a mistake. I know I've certainly made my share.

Bob,

As a coach, I find your suggestion quite appealing.

JM

Hypothetical, my behind.:)

I have two questions for you, neither of which do I expect you to answer...

(1) When was the last time ONE solitary call determined the outcome of a game? Think hard about the possibilities before you answer.

(2) How many calls does an umpire make in an average game? A batter may
get five at-bats in a game, and if he hits in three of them. He's had a great game. If he does it for a career, he winds up in the Hall of Fame. Bearing these questions/facts in mind, how many calls can an umpire miss, and still have a higher "batting" average than a HOF 'er ?
:confused:

Maybe the umps need to start pointing out the mistakes the the managers and players make that cost their team a win.

Jeeze,my question was,why dont we ever hear about officials getting fined or repremanded for poor job performance.And why is it against the rule for coaches or players to speak their minds if they think someone is not up to standards.

SORRY for asking such a stupid question,all of you have a great day.

for the same reason that i dont hear about you being repremanded for poor performance at your job.

ive heard this a lot, but can you define what standards you are talking about? please refer to direct quotes or numbers from said standard.

no problem, and you too.

Hmm, odd for a troll to quit so soon. So many forums, so little time....

Well, why don't you take this good piece of advice?

Wow, it took you 20 hours to come up with that one. Good job.

Steve, just wanted to say that I appreciate your not hitting the "quote" button when you reply to his crap - that way I don't even have to read it in the replies!

You're welcome. Thanks for reminding me, he's going back on the list.

Actually, we do "hear about it." A number of officials have lost assignments , been fired or publicly criticized by their superiors over the years. One only needs to have moderately competent reading skills and access to the sports section of a newspaper to "hear about it."

It is agains the rules for game participants to engage in that behavior because they have, in the past, abused that behavior to intimidate officials, even some who did nothing wrong, and incite fans. They hoped to shape future decisions by those officials.

The powers-to-be undestand that the integrity of the game is important enough to keep the participants from directly accusing and "threatening" the officials in public. Participants may still complain, but they need to go through the appropriate channels.

Yeah, but if the quote button wasn't used a lot of us would never know that he posted. Somehow all his posts vanish. Is auto-delete an option I missed somewhere?

More constructive input from this guy, Bob.

Sheesh.........


Tim.