In a Fed game, young umpire objected to a coach telling him "You blew that call" twice, face-to-face, not across the field. Said rookie dumps coach.

I let too much of that kind of crap slide this year. 8 ejections in about 70 games, but it should have been more like 15. If someone comes up to me and tells me "you blew that call", there's a good chance I will dump him if I feel he is trying to intimidate me. If he's letting off frustration I'll probably say nothing.

As for yelling "you're killing us blue", this is something I used to not toss someone for in the past, but I am considering ejecting them in 2008.

And yes I did give this thread a 5 star rating, just as it deserves.

8 EJs in 70 Games?
 

You ejected 8 people in 70 games?

Not saying your ejections weren't valid, but you must be pissing some people off to get that many.

That's one every nine games! Reconsider that you probably should be letting even more slide, and not take it so personally, eh?

8 in 70 games? I've dumped 8 in 7 innings, so what.

BTW, why is the coach yelling sub's to a base ump in right field anyway? And, where can we reduce the rating on a thread?

Proving again that nothing has changed in your outlook on umpiring or yourself and that your assignor has the right opinion of your work.

WHAT work? WHAT assigner?


there ISNT one! excpet in his head :D

The first thing that you need to understand and learn from this situation is that when you dump a player or coach, is that they are being ejected for a specific reason. In your post you have questions about whether you should have run him after the first exchange. Here are some parameters to follow during a situation that may escalate towards an ejection:
1) First, never get into an exchange with a coach or player who is in the dugout or not in the vicinity of the play that is in question. If he wants to discuss it, he should come out and converse 1 on 1 with the umpire calling the play. If he declines to come out, move to your postion.
2) Umpires do not eject players or managers. Players and managers eject themselves. Once they cross the line, they have to go. It is important to understand this so as to not have any indecision or confusion as to why someone is ejected.
3) There is no turning back, EVER after someone has been ejected from a game. Never. You now write your report.

" When you look for trouble, trouble finds you" From the time you enter the field, remember, " You're in charge, be in charge"

Sorry. I thought that once. I thought, "no working umpire would ever say some of this stuff." But I was wrong.

Like it or not, he is real.

Richard on umpire.org wrote that he saw him at that Cooperstown scamfest and actually worked a game with him. His post is priceless. Richard struggles mightily to acknowledge canadaump6's existance without making one comment or hint as to his work. Richard is a diplomat.

But in the same thread, ohmygollycanada lets everyone know he struggled during the tournament.

Sorry, Larry. But he is real.

I've ejected that many in a season. Regardless of who started this thread, you cannot possibly come to this conclusion without knowing the circumstances.

It has nothing to do with taking it personally.

oh my god.

See page three of this thread:

http://www.umpire.org/modules.php?na...er=asc&start=0

*shocked and saddened* :(


thank you for the info mr Garth. its a sad moment for me.

I gave it 5 bleepin' stars.:cool:

I get this one with the 18+ MSBL studs, they scramble to put together 9 or 10 so the ranks are thin. As if I care. Hell, I can guarantee you that there have been times when a buddy drug his drugged buddy to the field and the drugged buddy had beserk on his mind for a reason. To go home. :D

Oh, you call kids? What an a$$hole you are. I hope you never call crippled lepers or blinded, one footed dwarfs. :D

In FED, you have the choice of putting the coach on the bus or making him sit quietly. Here in CT, we are asked to use the restriction first especially in a case where the offending coach is the only qualified adult Representative.

In the case above, it was a better choice to talk to the rookie as the veteran did and let the rookie make the change. Again, this was a FED game and the option was there. In an OBR or NCAA game, once gone, he has to stay gone.

Regards

It was an 18U high school league, so the "kids" had crossed the magical "players that shave" demarcation that gets yammered about here so often. Well, at least some of them had.

Even worse, I imagine, in the eyes of many here- besides the crippled lepers and blinded dwarfs I also work many games with...gasp!...girls!