A question from a baseball umpire

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rich

Why do baseball umpires allow coaches to delay the game and come onto the playing surface to question / argue calls? When they do that, my fellow basketball officials and I always remark how we'd call a technical foul and the umpires do nothing.

(BTW, I work both sports. Both sports are different.)

This pretty much sums it up.

And I also have worked both sports in the past at the HS and college level. I no longer do baseball and probably will not be going back to that sport.

And I could add that football officials get yelled and hollered at in a way that neither baseball or basketball officials would tolerate.

Sports have different standards. That is never going to change.

Peace