Worthy of Ejection?

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

Let me throw my .02 in here.

I am a member of the clergy, and I umpire men's adult and college BB, with former pro players in the leagues I work as well as lower levels. I have a rather dim view of anyone using the F-bomb any time I hear it, no matter who says it. The same goes for Damn, hell, and all kinds of other "colorful metaphors". Our culture is rapidly going down the chute, and it is this kind of behavior and language which is a sure sign of it. It did not used to be this way. And if I can, I will in a private manner ask them to knock it off. This does work, if you do it right.

However, if I hear it and F2 hears it only, then I can let it go and deal with it in other ways before ejection, unless it is being used to show me up, or the crowd starts to hear it. If the F-Bomb was the start of a conforontation, dump him now, if not deal with it in another way.

Most players who play on that level and have a clue know you cuss out towards the outfield, not at anyone, and don't use it to show the umpire up. And they also know that if they use it at me or any good ump on strike two, then the zone just got big time wider and he had better be swinging. There are times when strikes and outs are the best discipline for rowdy players, and a good F2 for the other team makes life real easy one you!

If he then decides to further do things, then he is deciding to eject himself.

Which leads me to the question I would ask our first poster: Did anything else happen earlier in the game that gave you a reason to eject him? Did he go after you in a previous AB, or was there a lot of people riding you about a call or your zone?

I frankly think your assigner should have walked you through why this was not a good ejection IHO, instead of just saying so.

Would you eject an adult player for telling you you've made "a terrible call" loud enough for all to hear?

If not, would you eject the same player in the same situation if he'd said you've made a "fu*^^*ing terrible call"?


Tim.