Balk or not? FED

[rbmartin]

Originally Posted by biggravy

Did he watch the rest of the game from the parking lot?

No reason for that.

[Robert E. Harrison]

Back in the day when I knew all of the rules and was full of piss and vinegar, if a coach pulled out a rule book, he was questioning my ability to umpire that game. He would have been in the parking lot as soon as I saw it.

Now in my older, more wisen (is that a word?) state and thanks to this forum, I allow the coach to ask his question and I answer it succinctly and tell him I will scan the relavent sections of the reference manual to which I refer and send him an email.

I had a friend that would bet the coach $50 that the coach was wrong and the assigner would be the arbitrater. He got an extra $200 that season.

[rbmartin]

If a coach wants to calmly and respectfully discuss rules with me between innings, I'll let him.

[MD Longhorn]

Coach coming out of the dugout a little while later than we discussed a rule, with the book open to the rule asking me to clarify is COMPLETELY different than coach coming out of the dugout with book held high (not even opened), telling me I don't know the rules.