A question from a baseball umpire

Originally Posted by JRutledge

you do not seem to be aware of other things officials regardless of "system" they work under

Huh?

[BryanV21]

There's a good chance that the basketball officials you're watching, if they are like me, are ignoring the coach. I've been told a few times that a coach was yelling quite a bit, and I didn't notice.

Along those lines, a couple of weeks ago I was doing a game in which I gave a technical foul to a player from the home team for taunting. As I was going to report the foul a fan was apparently losing his mind. It was so bad my partner had him removed from the gym. The funny thing is... I didn't notice it.

It may be a good and bad thing, but I've come to just ignore anything but questions. That's not to say some times things don't get so bad that I do notice and react accordingly.