Officiating and the Crowd

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

You know, what you say is thoroughly and completely true!

I often wonder if the spectators knew that they are utterly insignificant to any seasoned umpire, would they even say some of that crap? I actually like hearing most of it, because I find it amusing when someone is screaming in public about something in which they are not even a factor.

And there is complete and total evidence to the contrary that umpires/officials could not care what the crowd thinks. But this myth keeps being repeated over and over and over again in all kinds of sports. And it is more absurd in baseball because the claim is that an umpire would not call a strike against a home team player simply because they want to not hear the crowd. Well that walk the umpire just called for this reason not just added more time to the game. This is one of the dumbest things I hear and it is based on nothing more than people's own fears of being an official.

Peace