Admitting to your mistakes?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by LMan

Admit nothing to a coach. Nothing. There is no benefit, and the downside can be substantial.

To every whine/request/petulance of a coach, a repeated "I'll keep an eye on it" will do nicely.

This 'earn their respect' by confessing errors is nuts. That only tells the coach that you are a soft touch who can be 'worked' for calls...and word gets around. The umpire coaches respect is the one that a) doesnt make mistakes, and b) if he did, he wouldn't go Oprah to a coach on the field.

If you work where you can enter confessional and the coaches don't use that as a weapon, then you aren't working competitive baseball. Aim higher.

I work the highest level of baseball in my area (HS/D3) and I have told a coach I kicked one. Still can't figure how this could be used against me -- on the contrary, that's the cue to him to shut up since there's nothing more to say now.