Umpires complaining about other umpires

[Dakota]

Originally posted by tcannizzo
Where do you wheigh in on this? Where do you draw the line?

You are an umpire. You are watching a game as an observer, perhaps as an interested party to one of the teams, perhaps not.

You are doing your own informal evaluation of the crew, and you see garbage. I mean real garbage.

Do you look around to see if evaluators are watching?

And what if you look, but none of the evaluators are at this field, although they are present at the venue (i.e. a tournament)?

Do you approach an evaluator? Do you let it go?

Unless you have some official capacity in the umpire's association (e.g. director of umpire training, etc.), leave it alone. The most I would suggest would be to talk with the umpire, apart from everyone else, after the game.

But, I would not deliver an unsolicited "evaluation" of a fellow umpire to the UIC if I had no standing to provide that evaluation.