"Gross misconduct by members of the league will be cause to cancel this agreement instantly. The judgement of the assigner on what constitutes gross misconduct is absolute and not subject to appeal, just like umpire judgement calls."

I'm sure there are some lawyers here who can provide some better verbage.

[QUOTE]REI, I think you are missing the MAIN Point here.

Depending upon where you are from there are certain teams, players and coaches that are real jerks and as Rich said have been EJ'D by most umpires not just one crew.

Also, what is getting LOST in the translation is this

No matter how bad the umpiring is No UMPIRE and by no umpire I mean if you had Jefro from the old Beverly Hillbilly show umpire the game deserves to be thrown at.

As long as the umpiring is bad for both teams no one is gaining an advantage.

It sounds from your post that in a way you condone such behavior and hopefully that is not the case.

It's my gut and from reading the article Lawump provided that this team had a history of bad behavior yet nothing was done.

The way I read your post is that if you have good game management skills, things like what happened to Rich would not occur and that simply is not the case.

I do not care how good you are, we are not going to call EVERY pitch perfect or get EVERY call on the bases correct and when we do make a mistake etc. the penalty should not be being thrown at.

We see on average about 160 - 200 pitches (assuming a7 inning game and decent pitching so the number could be higher) per game. If we miss 5-7, I say we had a good day.

This is not about an umpire being approachable etc. is it about someone trying to PURPOSELY injure an umpire and it has not been the FIRST incident we have heard about.

If nothing is done unfortunately some umpire will pay a serious price and then maybe something will be done.

Pete Booth

Fixed your post.

Preach it, Brutha Rich....


"Some meeeennnn....just.....cainnnnnnnnt be reeeeeeeeeeeeeeesoned with......." /coolhandluke

Well said, Pete, and also applicable in all sports imo.

God himself wouldn't be able to stop some players/coaches/teams/fans from acting the way that they do.

"What we got heeeeerrrrrrrreeeee is faiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillure to communicate."

I like how my post made some feel uncomfortable. It should. ;)

:rolleyes:

Pete,

Max Baer, Jr. called and said for you to get his name right. It's Jethro.;)

It doesn't make me feel uncomfortable at all. I just think you're full of ****.

Full of asterisks? ;)

I used to live in Portland. What you're seeing here is similar to the Coach's son syndrome, only the umpire version.