Rays / White Sox

[GA Umpire]

Originally Posted by Simply The Best

Sure does. Ethics before comfortableness. Slap on a pair of cahoonas and get the call right.

The game, the players and most of all, you should require it.

At the end of the day, when you are stripping your gear and heading out, if you have left your self-esteem and your honesty on the field, the postgame brewskis will only subdue your shame for the night.

There is nothing unethical about making a call and handling one's own business. And, we do require ethics, or as much as we can enforce legally from players, coaches, and umpires.

Each umpire has a job to do and this one failed at his. His job is to make calls at 1B, not rely on U2 to bail him out when he makes a mistake. And, then that umpire has to take the heat for U1's lack of "cahoonas". In essence, U1 "dropped the ball" worse than F1. And, "unethically" created a problem for U2 which wouldn't have been if U1 would have just done his job in the first place.

U1 screwed the whole play up and let U2 take the blame for it. That is the "unethical" part of it.