A question from a baseball umpire

[kylejt]

Why do basketball officials allow themselves to be hollered at by coaches? In a baseball game, most basketball coaches wouldn't last five minutes without an EJ. But in basketball they go off right in the officials ear, non-stop. Top of their lungs screaming stuff.

I've never understood that.

I do enjoy going to HS basketball games with some of my baseball umpire friends, and seeing how soon we'd EJ a coach. It's almost always very quickly. "Come on, Blue, don't let him yell at you like that", always get a bewildered look.