Leaving Partner in the Parking Lot

[Kevin Finnerty]

Wow!

Echo, echo, echo ...

Never have I, nor will I leave a partner on the field. The coward who did that is essentially not a real umpire. I don't need to know anything else about the coward as a person or an umpire to make those conclusions.

I will always enter the fray in defense of any human being in peril who is being wrongly treated in any setting. I have done so more times than i can count, so I would unhesitatingly do so for any umpire. And in the above situation, after order was restored, I would verbally consume the coward non-umpire who left his partner on the field.

NJ, you're the man for standing up for a brother.

[SanDiegoSteve]

I had an old smitty leave me in the parking lot once after a called third strike by me (dandy curveball at the knees) with the tying run at 3rd, ended a PONY 14U tournament final. The visitors (a team from Tustin) won, leaving the local people angry. A lynch mob escorted us to the parking lot. Ol' Smitty got in his car and said, "I'll see ya, Steve!" and drove off in a hurry. There I was left to face the angry crowd.

I had no problem driving off in full gear!

Never do something like that to your partner, I don't care what happened on the field, you stick together. Nobody else will come to your rescue.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Again, the coward who did that is essentially not a real umpire.

At least he's a genuine coward. If you're going to be something be genuine.