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Old Fri Aug 03, 2012, 11:40am
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Alternative suggested by an ESPN commentator: Doff your hats and bow to the crowd. Reply to a joke with a joke.

Many many many of you advise new umpires to not respond to fans because it shows they're getting to you.

What will that crew do now if a group of fans start singing Three Blind Mice" as they walk onto the field?

Trapped by thier lack of a sense of humor perhaps?
Which is why instead of ejecting the music playing DJ the way he did, he should have called over the General Manager and told the GM to get rid of the DJ/Announcer immediately OR he should have used the dugout phone (if available in this particular ballpark) and told the DJ/Announcer to pack it in for the rest of the night. By doing it the way he did, he became a national media story AND will subject himself to unnecessary abuse from fans (and players) for a while.

I personally dealt with this issue once by calling the GM over and telling him that if I heard it one more time the press box would be empty for the rest of the night. Amazingly, we never heard it again for the rest of the series.
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Old Fri Aug 03, 2012, 08:51pm
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Which is why instead of ejecting the music playing DJ the way he did, he should have called over the General Manager and told the GM to get rid of the DJ/Announcer immediately OR he should have used the dugout phone (if available in this particular ballpark) and told the DJ/Announcer to pack it in for the rest of the night. By doing it the way he did, he became a national media story AND will subject himself to unnecessary abuse from fans (and players) for a while.

I personally dealt with this issue once by calling the GM over and telling him that if I heard it one more time the press box would be empty for the rest of the night. Amazingly, we never heard it again for the rest of the series.
Exactly, let someone else take care of your dirty work. No different than "Coach I need to go over your lineup here. Please take care of such and such or an assitant."

I was once in a fairly heated discussion with a coach when a parent came up to the fence and told the coach to punch me out. After our discussion I asked the coach to take care of him for me and he said "glady." I have Never seen that person since.
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