Why are there appeals, its our job

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by UmpireErnie

Wow, Carl would do away with appeals? Maybe I will have to rethink. Carl was my mentor as a young official in baseball and basketball 25 years ago.

Then you are on the wrong board. Carl abhors softball umpires. He does not believe we are "real" umpires, just a bunch of guys chasing little girls around a ball field. Not making that up, he has made this comment directly to me on the e-mail list which preceded this site.

[UmpireErnie]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Then you are on the wrong board. Carl abhors softball umpires. He does not believe we are "real" umpires, just a bunch of guys chasing little girls around a ball field. Not making that up, he has made this comment directly to me on the e-mail list which preceded this site.

Yeah, that sounds like Carl. He gave me the same ribbing when I got some contact info from him last year for the TASO Softball Chapter in South Texas. But "abhor"? Naaa, he has simply chosen his game as I have chosen mine.

Carl does like to give people a hard time though. I once watched him officiating a girls high school basketball game in Raymondville, TX. The home coach was also a high school baseball umpire who worked with Carl during baseball season, and as I recall, someone who always liked to spar with Carl at association meetings.

The home team had ran away with the game, but with about two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, Carl called a flagrant technical foul on his fellow umpire (the home coach in this game) for "failing to comment on my poor officiating". Vintage Carl.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by UmpireErnie

Yeah, that sounds like Carl. He gave me the same ribbing when I got some contact info from him last year for the TASO Softball Chapter in South Texas. But "abhor"? Naaa, he has simply chosen his game as I have chosen mine.

If you were part of that e-mail list, you wouldn't hold such a kind opinion.

He invited me to join along with a couple other softball umpires. Carl and his protective little minions, wasted no time or effort in making personal attacks on anyone citing anything which didn't fall directly into line with what he wants to be a fact.

It didn't make any difference that you were simply comparing the rules of the two games or just offering an opinion, Carl publicly treated everyone not in line with his world with absolute disdain and made every effort to demean the individual.

He never missed an opportunity to make a disparaging remark about the game of softball and those involved. I invited him to more than one Major SP National to see exactly how unathletic the players were only to be ignored.