Coaches

[David B]

Originally Posted by LLPA13UmpDan

Couple things with this one- Why is it coached insist on arguing/disputing judgement calls? its pointless and stupid. When i was doing third base on thursday.. Runner was trying to steal third...3rd basemen gets the ball and stretches back to make the tag- I call runner out; i saw him get tug. The third base coach obviously didnt think so- He was like "oh come on blue this isnt the major leagues where if the ball beats you ur out" and everyone of third base side was boo-ing...then the other coach from that team in the 3rd base dougout screamed out- What the h*ll you missed that call and everyone including the fans thinks so too...im like doesnt matter what u see or they see...its what i see. end of story. Then theres also the coach who wants to argue the strike zone. In the dugout you have a different view then you do from behind the plate. We tell them b4 the game at the plate meeting "no arguing judgement calls- they are our calls- we call it as we see it". Gee that doesnt go very far. End of story. what sense is it to argue judgement?

Reading this reminds me why I gave up calling "small ball" several years ago.

Coaches will go as far as they are allowed by the umpires.

Thanks
David

[DG]

It's not limited to small ball. My partner tonight got into argument with the assistant coach who ran onto the field to argue a call at 1B. The bases were loaded with 1 out and the batter bunts one up the 1B line. F3 comes in to field the ball but F1 picks it up and throws toward 1st at F4 who is covering. But F3 backpeddling intercepts the ball and tries to make a tag on the runner going by. SAFE. While my partner is arguing with the assistant the head coach comes out about halfway and is arguing also. He finally told them both to go back in the dugout. The whole time this is going on I am thinking I would have tossed the assistant immediately and then maybe head coach would not have come out at all.