Is whining & *****ing more prevalent this year?

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by UMP25

That's because there's always an anal umpire who feels the need to start nitpicking and be overly and unnecessarily analytical. These are the guys who think that they can find fault in anything everyone here says.

I'm having a problem with the phrasing of this one part.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by Durham

I am a little late to this thread, but why didn't you warn and then eject this guy?

I try my best to not eject someone, Durham, and because it was the first inning of the first game, I admit I bent over backward to not eject him right away. True, it shouldn't matter what inning it is, but at the time he didn't cross that line that results in an ejection--at least to me he didn't. I am sure I could have easily been justified in ejecting him at some point, and perhaps I should have, but in hindsight, it didn't matter. I was off his Christmas card list regardless.

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

I'm having a problem with the phrasing of this one part.

I am not singling out any specific person by name, Kevin, but what I think I'm trying to say is that it seems whenever someone posts here about a play they handled or a rule/ruling, SOMEone has to reply and pick apart or nitpick or find fault with such OP's handling of the situation, even if the OP happened to do everything perfectly.

I lump such people into the category of those who don't give the time when asked what it is; instead, they reply with instructions on how to build a watch.

I would hope that someone would slap me once or twice if I end up being too nitpicky or anal about something.

[Kevin Finnerty]

I gotcha. I was trying to make fun of nitpickery myself.

[UMP25]

I'm an advocate of K.I.S.S., despite the fact that I have in my career violated this (much less often now than in my earlier days, fortunately).

[Durham]

I rarely eject anyone, but I never get in the way of letting them eject themselves. I am not certain that this guy would have been ejected if I had the same situation with him, but I am rather certain that he would have had a warning in the 1st inning. After that he would have had the option to stay or go and I would not get in the way of either. If you had it to do again might you warn him in the 1st after you let him have his say and he kept at it?

[UMP25]

Well, I didn't use the word "warn" or anything like that, but I did tell him I had had enough of the "rules" discussion and that the "debate" was over.