Pull the trigger?

[David B]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times:

If you never eject anyone, you simply have not been doing your job.

Show me an umpire who would not toss a coach for addressing the crowd concerning the umpiring, plus pointing at the umpire while doing so, and I'll show you an extremely weak official.

I would not care to work with an umpire who is afraid or unwilling to eject when warranted by a situation, and this situation is an automatic EJ. This "I just try to get along/don't rock the boat" mentality is the reason coaches come up with that "where's my warning" crap when they get tossed.

Hey Big Guy and other non-ejectors: I can eject a coach just fine from short right field. I don't need to leave my rest position to accomplish it.

That's simply garbage. As I stated this is a freshman game - simply a scrub game before varsity.

I'm not concerned with coaches in that type of game.

But to say you have to eject a coach to be a "strong official" - that is simply poor judgement.

I've been calling state playoffs since I was 21 - 4 state championship games. You don't get to that level being a "weak official."

It all comes down to the fact that a freshman (little league) coach hollering to the crowd simply doesn't affect me.

Now if a varsity coach did that - different, but as we have noted, a varsity coach simply ain't gonna play that game.

The reason I keep beating the dead horse is because there are many officials who read this forum and I don't want them to think that the only way to control the game is by ejecting coaches.

I've made my case, and i'm out on this one!

Thanks
David