The Official Forum  

Go Back   The Official Forum > Basketball

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old Fri May 02, 2008, 05:00am
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: venus
Posts: 23
Send a message via Yahoo to angryZebra
lately its all happened when I'm PMS-ing....


Let's start with a (baseball) tournament I worked about a month ago. (11u boys, travelling teams) typical whiney crowd that reacted to every call, got particularly upset at a play at the plate.... I won't go into the details as my point is I thought lava was going to start flowing from every pore in their bodies. they continued to spastically blurt whatever stupid comment they could come up with, & after two pitches to the next batter I heard someone drop the F* bomb. My partner had tossed their coach an inning prior, & now I turned around to the backstop & said "ok, we WILL do without the profanity". this incited more arguing from them. one angry mother even came into the dugout, picked up a bat & shook it towards me as she started walking towards the field-exit to the dugout, screaming at me "F*** YOU, YOU F***ING B**CH!!" I called the game & my partner & I got the HECK outta there.

Then the next day, a basketball tourny of local teams. From the coach that was down by 20+, I was told I was scared.... so I gave that coach a reason to leave the gym... his assistant was coaching the younger age bracket of their team in the next game, & with 3 min left (& down by 20+), as he stood at the scorer's table, he told me to get my head out of my a$$. After calmly telling him he's ejected, I softly added "That's the safest place I've found for it, nobody messes with my a$$...".
__________________
winning isn't everything... KNOWING THE RULES IS!

----------------------------------------------------
Fan: "Hey ref, you suck!"

Ref: "No, I blow... & so do fans come to think of it )
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old Fri May 02, 2008, 05:49am
In Memoriam
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Hell
Posts: 20,211
Thumbs up

Would you be less angry if I told you that you did a good job in both cases?

The only possible thing that I personally might have done differently was in the beisbol game. I don't believe in talking to fans. I would have stopped the game and let whoever game management might be deal with the fans. That's their job after you've identified the problem. If you can't find anyone from game management, suspend the game until they crawl out of wherever they're hiding.

Other than that, big ups imo for taking care of bidness. It helps all of your fellow officials down the road when you refuse to take crap like you detailed. If more officials would follow your lead, I'm firmly convinced we'd have fewer coach/fan problems.

Last edited by Jurassic Referee; Fri May 02, 2008 at 05:51am.
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old Fri May 02, 2008, 06:40am
9/11 - Never Forget
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 5,642
Send a message via Yahoo to grunewar
Continuing Off Topic......

We had an "interesting event" at our baseball game last night. I'm Asst coach, B13-15.

We're home, winning 13-8 at the end of four innings and we're at the infamous "two hour" mark of the game (meaning no inning can be started, etc.) Both teams are cordially lining up to shake hands.

Senior ump comes in off the field and says "let's go we can get another inning in." Both coaches go huh? He says, yep, we have 30 seconds left before the two hour limit so we can start another inning. You're kidding right? 30 seconds? Did we all synchronize watches before the game? Uh, no! So, we played another half an inning....and still won by the same score.

One of our team parents comes up to me between innings and says, "we started at 5:30 and my watch said 7:32, what is he trying to pull?" I put my referee hat on for a second and calmly explained to her that her watch didn't matter - only the umps did. It was bizarre though.....
__________________
There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old Sat May 03, 2008, 05:33pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Fishers, IN
Posts: 486
Quote:
Originally Posted by grunewar
We had an "interesting event" at our baseball game last night. I'm Asst coach, B13-15.

We're home, winning 13-8 at the end of four innings and we're at the infamous "two hour" mark of the game (meaning no inning can be started, etc.) Both teams are cordially lining up to shake hands.

Senior ump comes in off the field and says "let's go we can get another inning in." Both coaches go huh? He says, yep, we have 30 seconds left before the two hour limit so we can start another inning. You're kidding right? 30 seconds? Did we all synchronize watches before the game? Uh, no! So, we played another half an inning....and still won by the same score.

One of our team parents comes up to me between innings and says, "we started at 5:30 and my watch said 7:32, what is he trying to pull?" I put my referee hat on for a second and calmly explained to her that her watch didn't matter - only the umps did. It was bizarre though.....
Grune....

Our baseball league fixed that rule this year because we had that same issue in the past.

When the 3rd out is recorded in the bottom of the inning, that is the start of the new inning. No more of the first pitch in the new inning is the start of that next inning. Too much delay, warmup pitches etc.....When the previous inning ends, that's when the ump checks the time.
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old Sat May 03, 2008, 05:41pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 1999
Posts: 18,016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Coltdoggs
Grune....

Our baseball league fixed that rule this year because we had that same issue in the past.

When the 3rd out is recorded in the bottom of the inning, that is the start of the new inning. No more of the first pitch in the new inning is the start of that next inning. Too much delay, warmup pitches etc.....When the previous inning ends, that's when the ump checks the time.
Your league didn't need to do that -- it's the official rule.
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old Sat May 03, 2008, 09:03pm
ODJ ODJ is offline
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 390
Quote:
Originally Posted by grunewar
We had an "interesting event" at our baseball game last night. I'm Asst coach, B13-15.

We're home, winning 13-8 at the end of four innings and we're at the infamous "two hour" mark of the game (meaning no inning can be started, etc.) Both teams are cordially lining up to shake hands.

Senior ump comes in off the field and says "let's go we can get another inning in." Both coaches go huh? He says, yep, we have 30 seconds left before the two hour limit so we can start another inning. You're kidding right? 30 seconds? Did we all synchronize watches before the game? Uh, no! So, we played another half an inning....and still won by the same score.

One of our team parents comes up to me between innings and says, "we started at 5:30 and my watch said 7:32, what is he trying to pull?" I put my referee hat on for a second and calmly explained to her that her watch didn't matter - only the umps did. It was bizarre though.....
Did he think he's paid by the hour?
Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old Fri May 09, 2008, 11:52pm
Official Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: SW Kansas
Posts: 728
Quote:
Originally Posted by angryZebra
....after two pitches to the next batter I heard someone drop the F* bomb. My partner had tossed their coach an inning prior, & now I turned around to the backstop & said "ok, we WILL do without the profanity". this incited more arguing from them.
Did you expect anything less? You're asking for it handling it in this fashion.

Don't talk to the fans; take it up with the TD and let them handle it.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Almost Happened .... Chess Ref Softball 3 Thu Apr 10, 2008 09:18pm
well it happened, well almost happened cmathews Basketball 7 Mon Jan 29, 2007 04:17pm
Has this happened to you? Gus Basketball 2 Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:39pm
Whatever happened to "Whatever happened to class"? UmpJM Baseball 7 Sat Jul 30, 2005 03:49pm
Sure wish it hadn't happened ....... TexBlue Softball 53 Fri Apr 30, 2004 12:27am


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:38pm.



Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1