Most annoying thing heard

[blue31sf]

How can you make that call?!?

[socalblue1]

I just turn the hearing aids off. Smooth quiet games always

[TxUmp]

I don't allow anyone on the field to use the phrase "Call it both ways, Blue!"

That phrase strongly implies that I am favoring the other team, and fundamentally, it questions my integrity. When I hear anyone on the bench say that, I give the coach a warning, and let him know that a bench restriction and/or ejections will follow if I hear it again.

[dash_riprock]

Originally Posted by TxUmp

I don't allow anyone on the field to use the phrase "Call it both ways, Blue!"

That phrase strongly implies that I am favoring the other team, and fundamentally, it questions my integrity. When I hear anyone on the bench say that, I give the coach a warning, and let him know that a bench restriction and/or ejections will follow if I hear it again.

Boy are you strict!

[TxUmp]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

Boy are you strict!

Of course I am! How loossly do you let them question YOUR integrity?

[dash_riprock]

I don't take the comment literally, I just ignore it. They're just rats, trying to get a call. I'll sometimes here this when I ring up one at the knees. I just hope the next pitch is in the same place so I can ring it up again.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by dash_riprock

I don't take the comment literally,

Okay...then take the comment figuratively and tell me what the coach is saying.

"Where was that", "not your pitch", etc are simple disagreements with your judgment. But "Call it both ways" implies strongly that you are favoring one team over the other, or put otherwise, cheating.

I'll tolerate a coach saying that once, but he won't be around to say it three times.

[Uncle_Moe]

TxUmp: I don't allow anyone on the field to use the phrase "Call it both ways, Blue!"

Amen. Actually had a coach send his captain out at half-time of a basketball game and say words that effect. I lit the coach up. It was bad enough for the coach to say it, but to have a high school kid do it on his behalf is way out of line.