First Game

[celebur]

Originally Posted by dfwump

I first heard "rodeo clown" as it pertains to umpires at a clinic here in north Texas back in 2007. We were covering handling situations. It seemed then and now to be an apt description. Treblehorn was the clown, not the umpire.
I was using the phrase as a verb...not a noun.
Mike C

I respectfully disagree--watching a rodeo clown in action, it seems that the umpire is playing the role of the rodeo clown in these situations. But I do not take this negatively against the umpire; rather, I take it negatively against the manager. Treblehorn was the out-of-control bull that needed to be distracted and guided off the field.

[Rufus]

Wow, what a calm/collected crew! Can you imagine having to deal with a much older, and irate, coach in that situation when you're that young and new to the profession? They both did very well I thought (maybe let him go on a bit long, but what are you supposed to do, bodily remove him from the field?). I'm a coach and can only hope my first ejection (may it never come) is handled that professionally.

I know they go through scenarios/role-playing in their schools (at least according to As They See Them) but that was pretty impressive.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Wow, what a calm/collected crew! Can you imagine having to deal with a much older, and irate, coach in that situation when you're that young and new to the profession? They both did very well I thought (maybe let him go on a bit long, but what are you supposed to do, bodily remove him from the field?). I'm a coach and can only hope my first ejection (may it never come) is handled that professionally.

I know they go through scenarios/role-playing in their schools (at least according to As They See Them) but that was pretty impressive.

The entire video, from ejection to end, is about 1:30. That's not too long and those umpires did a great job. It takes two to argue and those guys weren't giving Trebelhorn anyone to argue with.

[BretMan]

Call it whatever (and I'm not working NCAA ball so anything their instructors might have said don't apply to me).

But just don't do what a recent partner of mine did...

I'm in "A" and the first base coach starts laying into me about a call. I calmly tell him to knock it off and the guy goes ballistic. This was at the end of a half-inning, so his players were filing past us on the way to the dugout.

So now I'm surrounded by a coach and five players and they're all jawing at me. Partner comes over and instead of "rodeo clowning" or "rodeoing" or "peeling them off me"...he get's nose to nose with ME and starts pushing ME away! Way to go, partner (or, with all the rodeoing going on, maybe that should be "pardner").

You just left the six screaming idiots, that had no business being on the field, on the field and made it look like the umpire was the aggressor. The view from under the bus sucks...