You're Outa Here!

[grunewar]

How many have been "bumped" before? By the catcher? Out of the ordinary?

Did you get support from the league? Your Association? Just curious.

Rays' Navarro suspended 2 games for contact with ump - USATODAY.com

[briancurtin]

Here is the video: Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | TOR@TB: Navarro is ejected for arguing strike zone - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

I've only had one bump situation (well, more than a bump, post-game) and the assignor had my back and the league did as well.

[johnnyg08]

Nope. Hope to never have one. Our group had one a few years ago. Guy got suspended for three games.

[JR12]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

Here is the video: Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | TOR@TB: Navarro is ejected for arguing strike zone - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

I've only had one bump situation (well, more than a bump, post-game) and the assignor had my back and the league did as well.

Not to mention looked like a good call. The pitch was low. Even without the stupid pitch trac thing.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by briancurtin

Here is the video: Baseball Video Highlights & Clips | TOR@TB: Navarro is ejected for arguing strike zone - Video | MLB.com: Multimedia

I've only had one bump situation (well, more than a bump, post-game) and the assignor had my back and the league did as well.

When did yours occur, Brian?

My bump occurred this year when North Central College's head coach John Fitzgerald bumped me 4 or 5 times after I ejected him for telling me, "You're phucking horrible!" I had called out his BR for missing first on a double. (Never mind the fact that the BR stumbled very visibly approaching first base and ended up running right over the base.) Unbelievably, after I ejected him for swearing at me, he incredulously asks, "For what?!? What did I do to get ejected?"

Our Bob Jenkins here was my partner on this game, BTW.

[briancurtin]

Mine was probably 4 years ago, working a three-man game with Luke and another guy for an adult league in Aurora. Some fans supposedly heard me tell the wife of a coach to f* off or something ridiculous like that...from the third base dugout area while I was standing at the 45 foot line (no one else heard this, obviously). After the game we all left the through the other team's dugout, but that coach came charging around the field and pushed me and grabbed me by the shirt shirt. Luckily quite a few people were around to intervene. He ended up getting bounced out of the league pretty quick I think.

[tjones1]

Not in baseball... once in basketball.

[Skarecrow]

Originally Posted by grunewar

How many have been "bumped" before? By the catcher? Out of the ordinary?

Did you get support from the league? Your Association? Just curious.

Rays' Navarro suspended 2 games for contact with ump - USATODAY.com

I had a catcher purposely duck a fast ball that hit me in the solar plexus and knocked me to the ground....he sat out the last four games of the season....association backed all the way....

[johnnyg08]

cheap shot. I suspect a couple of guys who tried that...but they threw the pitches in the dirt. F2 blocks like a mad man for the entire game until they got ticked off at me and magically a ball gets through and drills me in the shin guards but hit the dirt first.

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

cheap shot. I suspect a couple of guys who tried that...but they threw the pitches in the dirt. F2 blocks like a mad man for the entire game until they got ticked off at me and magically a ball gets through and drills me in the shin guards but hit the dirt first.

Gasp! The shin guards?! The nerve of them!

Seriously, what kind of message is that?

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by yawetag

Gasp! The shin guards?! The nerve of them!

Seriously, what kind of message is that?

I agree...but if they're going to do it, I'll take that option versus one straight to the mask, chest, collar bone, nuts, etc.

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

I agree...but if they're going to do it, I'll take that option versus one straight to the mask, chest, collar bone, nuts, etc.

Certainly. They can throw at my shin guards all day.

[Kevin Finnerty]

I got repeatedly bumped and beaked by a batter I called out on strikes in a MSBL game. He turned on me and went at it Billy Martin style. I didn't back up and I didn't swear of scream anything I regret. But when his saliva went into my mouth during one of his screams, I flung him away from me, and his late-arriving teammates collared him before he could charge back at me. I told the teammates that if they didn't carry him off the property in one minute, the game's over.

The catcher and pitcher and the player's manager all called the league president before I did. Their accounts matched mine. The president told me that as of this minute, the guy is thrown out of the league.

So it went the way it's supposed to go. If it didn't, I would have walked.

[MSPChris]

I will agree that calling the police might be an overreaction, but I gotta tell you there are plenty of cases where calling the cops is warranted.

Most of my games are for teenage kids. Some coach that decides he's going to put his hands on me during the course of a game (in anger) has no business dealing with kids, period.

Sometimes the league might do something sometimes they won't -- the truth is a lot of the time it depends on who the adult is and what the situation was. I've read plenty of threads where umpires get blackballed because the coach is a prick, but he's a well-placed prick.

The police don't care who the adult is, or what the situation is. What matters to the police is that Adult A assaulted Adult B.

It's too bad but sometimes calling the police is going to be the only way that you the umpire cna make sure the situation goes (as Kevin said) "the way it's supposed to go."