I Guess I Deserved it, or Maybe Not.....

[HokieUmp]

Originally Posted by bossman72

You shouldn't yell at or criticize officials if you're a spectator at the game under ANY circumstances. He's your fellow blue out there and that isn't the way you should be conducting yourself. You know how tough it is out there.

In the future, talk to him after the game and give him some advice in a kind way if he's obvously ignorant of the pitching regulations as you've said.

But on a side note, what he did recently to you is crap- i agree.

It might BE crap, but Tim has to eat that second encounter completely. To reply to the thread title, yeah, you pretty much did deserve that. Whenever I've had any training, wherever I've been, when that subject comes up, the gist of it is, 'you don't throw fellow umpires under the bus, on or off field.' Once we've become umpires, we've sort of lost the ability to comment at a game - at least at the games we generally discuss here.

Yeah, the guy sounds terrible, but SOMEone at that game is going to know you're an umpire, so the original comment was a bad idea. He had the right to give a face full in return, even if the statute of limitations had run out.