Confrontation opinions

[jhughe90]

I was just going through the Coach asks catcher thread and saw this statement -The problem here was that the PU was very confrontational and everybody in the ball park heard him "admonish" the coach. I don't think that this is the way to handle it.- which goes along the lines on why I showed up here today.

Had an incident the other night where the umpire (through 1 1/2 good solid games with friendly chatter) in my opinion snapped and confronted the left fielder inappropriately.

I won't debate the call at 3rd except to say that a majority of the field was heading to the dugout before the call was realized.

General disagreement with calls in leagues in our area is normal and regular as long as long as it isn't vulgar and is dropped. Many take a lot more abuse than that and let it go.

The comment in this case was "that's awful", and barely audible at the plate. The umpire proceeded to walk into the field to the SS area and confront the LF, literally daring him with a "How awful was it?" to say anything else and be ejected. More belittling followed..."It's your mouth that's awful". I felt it was grossly uncalled for and took most of the enjoyment out of the rest of the game.

Thoughts? I've been stewing on it for 48 hours now. I realize that are likely no rules that cover such situations, but umpiring guidelines would certainly not recommend that.


Jeff