Are umpire associations to blame

[Jurassic Referee]

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.

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.

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.