Definition of an Umpire

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by LLPA13UmpDan

my ej to game ratio, it is 3 EJS to appox. 40 games. with two being in the same game.

I think mine is approximately 1 per year, working around 80-100 games a year. So while your ratio is a bit higher than that, with the small sample size, it's possibly not completely out of whack.

However ... the bigger problem to me with your statement is that you seem to think this is a low amount. It's not. It's average at best, possibly high.

And rest assured, I think I'd be giving counsel to someone who went 0 ejections in 2 years - it's almost a given that that umpire lets too much go. So the middle ground is where you want to be.

The reason I bagged on you earlier, however, is that despite THIS post, your previous posts (both the one that started this thread and the one about the letter you sent to your UIC, and others) give the general impression that you are on a power trip. Reference questions others have asked you - they have the same impression I do. You think that maybe since MOST of us seem to think you've got the wrong motivation for your efforts, that possibly we are right, and you need to chill a bit?

[canadaump6]

Try no ejections in 5 years of umpiring, equalling about 270 games in total.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Try no ejections in 5 years of umpiring, equalling about 270 games in total.

What this tells me is that you've passed your problems on to others.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Try no ejections in 5 years of umpiring, equalling [sic] about 270 games in total.

Just so a certain someone here won't continue to say I was just picking on him, here is the bottom line with this statement:

I sounds like you haven't been doing your job. When someone tells me that for 270 straight games, every single manager, coach, and player have been perfect little angels, and have never done one single thing to warrant an ejection, I call BULLSH!T!!! You are bound to have at least a couple of situations in which you should have tossed someone, because the nature of these rodents is to act like rodents.

It always sends up a red flag whenever I work with someone who brags about not running anybody. I know then that I'm most likely in for a long day at the ballyard.

[BBUMP99]

I have had over 500 games over the past three years...I am young, and the coaches here have tried to intimidate me and push me around, which has lead to what would probably be considered a high EJ/Game ratio...but I dont think that makes me any better or worse of an official...I think that a good official is determined by consistency, professionalism, game control, and overall prescence and mechanics on the field...I dont think that any one factor should determine if someone is regarded as good or not...I know some very good umpires who have quite a few EJs a season, I also know some very good umpires who have next to none...

[canadaump6]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Just so a certain someone here won't continue to say I was just picking on him, here is the bottom line with this statement:

I sounds like you haven't been doing your job. When someone tells me that for 270 straight games, every single manager, coach, and player have been perfect little angels, and have never done one single thing to warrant an ejection, I call BULLSH!T!!! You are bound to have at least a couple of situations in which you should have tossed someone, because the nature of these rodents is to act like rodents.

It always sends up a red flag whenever I work with someone who brags about not running anybody. I know then that I'm most likely in for a long day at the ballyard.

Yep, I should have ejected a lot of people but didn't. Things are gonna change this year.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Yep, I should have ejected a lot of people but didn't. Things are gonna change this year.

But don't go from one extreme to the other, and go around looking for trouble. Just make sure to handle your "bidness" when trouble comes your way.

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

Try no ejections in 5 years of umpiring, equalling about 270 games in total.

I agree with Garth and Steve. You've almost definitely simply let too much go by you, and some other umpire had to deal with too much later because of it. I suppose it's possible you simply work in the most gentlemanly league ever ... but no ejections in 5 years is quite surprising.