Arguing balls and strikes

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Originally Posted by SAump

Tossing somebody out for arguing BS balls and strikes sends a message alright. If you don't wanna hear it, stay home. You really don't belong there. I wouldn't even bother to write an ejection report. I would just pack it in. I can imagine the smiles from a committee when they hear that coach A was tossed for arguing balls and strikes with YOU. I agree with Tee's statements about ejections. Throw the wrong guy out and you'll be looking for a new line of work. Careers are shortened and you will be scratched. Let's not fuss over details. Let the coach exchange words and remember those 3 P's before any ejection. Brutal wasn't one them.

Some people only understand winning and what's fair doesn't begin to enter the picture. Every call against one team is a bad call. You come to expect comments from one side or the other at a critical juncture. Coaches feel they have to say something to defend a player or to motivate the team. A real coach isn't afraid to step out and state his case or ask for an explanation after his team has been slighted. He doesn't go out there to say the ump has been doing a good job all day.

Well, you are welcome to work like this. But, that is definitely the "old school" thinking about arguing balls/strikes. It is the kind of thinking that in my opinion brings about a lot of displays of poor sportsmanship and escalation of problems on and off the field.

I ejected when I need to. These ejections don't hurt my "career". There is no such thing as "throwing out the wrong guy out" unless you got the wrong coach from the bench.

Hey, if a coach wants to come out and talk to me face to face, in normal conversational tones, he can say almost anything to me. But when they bark it from the dugout, I have little tolerance! I don't HAVE to have much tolerance either! No assignor in the last several years has been mad because I tossed a coach for arguing balls/strikes after following the procedures described above. They usually applaud that I DID eject them and make comments like "Good, sounds like he deserved it".

A coach has ONE job during a came, to instruct his players. His job is NOT to argue calls I make.

All that aside, I just don't like a coach being in my head like that.