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

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Cool. I now know something that I didn't know before, not being an umpire. That makes it a good day.

But, that still doesn't change my opinion, Steve. Mis-interpreting a rule...hell, completely blowing a call.....is not justification for an umpire to sit in the stands and publicly dump on a fellow umpire. Umpires, the same as all sports officials, range from excellent to horrible. And even the excellent ones might miss or screw-up a call. Publicly criticizing a fellow umpire for one bad call effectively turns that umpire into the world's worst umpire, forever, by anyone in the stands that might hear that public criticism. What you're going to hear from the other fanboys is "Even his fellow umpires think that he's terrible".

Officials in all sports are held to different standards than fans or coaches. We're the only ones that don't care who wins or loses.

Again, jmo......

I agree that there was no justification for Tim to open his mouth against a fellow umpire. The whole point is that Tim knows he was wrong, and brought it out on this forum, opening himself up for a shellacking. I am only commending his courage for admitting his mistake and sharing it with us.

It was also wrong of the so-called umpire to confront Tim prior to the game, which I was also pointing out.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I agree that there was no justification for Tim to open his mouth against a fellow umpire. The whole point is that Tim knows he was wrong, and brought it out on this forum, opening himself up for a shellacking. I am only commending his courage for admitting his mistake and sharing it with us.

It was also wrong of the so-called umpire to confront Tim prior to the game, which I was also pointing out.

Sounds like we're both kind of in agreement now......

The "no justification" point was exactly the point that I was trying to make.