Why are there appeals, its our job

[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.