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Partner makes major mistake
This question keeps coming up: Do you intervene when your partner makes a major mistake? Generally the answer seems to be, “No, wait for a coach to challenge the call. If they don’t – too bad; go on with the game.”
Sit: A- Here is one that occurred several years ago: two good varsity teams, the BU called a LBR violation for the 3rd out. The defense ran off the field; the runner looked at the umpire, but gave up and left the field. No one questioned the call. I guess that I was the only person on the field that saw F1 fake a throw – and the runner stopped to look at her. Question: do you let it go when it was obviously a wrong call? Sit: B – low level JV game last week, rookie umpire behind the plate. R1 on 1B; I am in “B.” D-coach comes on field with scorebook and confers with PU who looks at her line-up card. They both go over and confer with the O-coach. I assumed that if the PU needed me she would call; otherwise I was out on the grass chatting with F9. When it broke up I went back to my position and on the first pitch I realized that I no longer had a runner on 1B. Oops, must have been a BOO; and I retreated to “A.” Between innings I asked BU what happened. Illegal sub, she said; she wasn’t on the line-up card. Actually she was a legal player; I told PU she was an unannounced sub and that there was no penalty. Question: if you were paying attention and you saw the runner being taken off the base would you get involved? You could have corrected a bad umpire call, and educated the PU and both coaches. Sit: C – same game, next inning. Opposite coach comes out with scorebook; same procedure as before. Now the PU is looking at me; obviously not sure of herself. I ask her what is wrong; she says, “Same thing.” “Unannounced sub by the other team.” Question: do you say let’s treat it same; call the out, neither coach knows the difference anyway? OR – do you say – we know the rule; we have to do it right even though one coach gets the short end? There are really two questions here. (1) Do you intervene to prevent partner from making an incorrect rules call? (2) If it were called wrong against one team, would you allow it to be wrong against the other team? WMB |
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I tend to be hands off when it comes to other umpires and their decisions. So I don't think I would intervene but if my partner came to me tell'em what I think the rule is .
In the second sitch partner comes to me I would not apply the rules incorrectly. We as a crew would sack up and take the berating we would surely get. ![]() I had the whole BOO/ illegal sub/unreported sub thing a couple of weeks ago with a partner somewhat dazed and confused, a "coach who is a legend" and myself. It was quite a discussion. I held my ground, I was correct in the application of the rule, and actually got an atta boy from the coach at another game. He had sent an email to our sectional rules person who backed me up...... ![]() |
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2 - If, between calls, it's discovered that a previous call was the wrong one, then there's no reason to continue making bad calls. If she made the wrong call the first time, she's going to have to live with a upset coach when she makes the correct call the next time. I've seen very few umpires get flak when they say, "coach, you're right, I blew that call. I asked my partner, and we are calling the correct rule from here on out." The coach apparently didn't know the rule, either, so they can only complain so much about people not knowing rules. My point is, be "stand-up" about it. If you blow a call and don't ask, don't cover it with more BS. You'll end up looking even more foolish when you're eventually caught.
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Dave I haven't decided if I should call it from the dugout or the outfield. Apparently, both have really great views! Screw green, it ain't easy being blue! I won't be coming here that much anymore. I might check in now and again. |
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Matt Not an official, just a full-time dad, part-time coach, here to learn. |
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If it's some schmuck I can't stand, and they don't ask me? I let 'em fry and break out the marshmallows. I've made that mistake once when dealing with a new ump who was very defensive with players. I didn't think he'd be so defensive around me, so after a game, I tried saying, "hey... you remember when...?" He got *very* defensive with me and ended up saying, "fine, don't call with me ever again!" Taught me a lesson in trying to help those who don't want help. ![]() Next day, I called my boss and said, "So-and-so doesn't want to be my friend anymore." My boss just laughed. That umpire didn't return this year, thank god. Awful, awful, awful.
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Dave I haven't decided if I should call it from the dugout or the outfield. Apparently, both have really great views! Screw green, it ain't easy being blue! I won't be coming here that much anymore. I might check in now and again. Last edited by NCASAUmp; Mon May 14, 2007 at 10:47am. |
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In your Situation B, the low level JV game with a new PU, I want to be near the conferences - it's a JV game, your partner is there to learn, the players are there to learn, and the coaches are there to learn. Do that and Situation C does not happen. The option of just calling the out 'cuz nobody else knows any better is going to cause problems for some umpire crew in the future. I don't want to have to clean up somebody else' mess, so I don't want to create one that someone else will have to cleanup.
As for Situation A, I'm waiting on my partner to ask me. Obviously, BU did not see the fake throw. There's really no difference in this than with a pulled foot on a force play or a ball on the ground on a tag play. I don't add anything to those, until asked - no reason to do anything differently in this one.
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There is a reason you don't have two rookies working together, you want to avoid the dumb and dumber situations. I think being willing to step on the field with a rookie increases the responsibility of the experienced partner of making sure the rules are applied correctly. Tom |
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![]() One thing that needs to be pointed out (IMHO, some may yet disagree) is that if it is the misapplication of a rule, such as fixing the BOO, and a coach utters that dreaded "protest" word, then the veteran better damned well be in there with bells on fixing it. I have done this only once with a veteran and avoided said protest. I don't remember the exact sitch. I do remember the umpire. We'll call him "Three and out." "Three and out" was going to do something third-worldish in the placement of a runner or somesuch. (Sorry, before last August I could have remembered this crap inch by inch...) Wronged coach comes off the bucket screaming, already LOUDLY uttering the P word. I told him I have it, don't worry, went out and fixed it. "Three and out" had deer in the headlights look as I tried to explain. Then he threw this "I've been doing this for umpteen years and I do college ball and blah blah blah..." I told him I didn't give a big rippin f**k what he did, we weren't going to have a protest and if he didn't like it I would GLADLY work single-man, which I basically had been doing anyway. So..."three and out" finishes up, won't shake my hand on the way to the car, and leaves. Later that night, get a call from someone else who explained that while "three and out" wouldn't apologize to me, he did now know he was wrong and I was right. Only other person who was mildly upset was the almost-offended coach. He had been wanting a piece of "three and out" for years and I deprived him of the chance. For THAT I felt bad...that I had deprived a coach of his rightful *** chewing of this umpire. BUT...he said he was serious about the protest right then and there.
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John An ucking fidiot |
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My spin on it goes like this....The "D-coach" in the OP that made a fuss about the unlisted (but legal) sub may have known the rule and pulled a fast one on the rookie ump. The "O-coach" didn't know the rule and had a fast one pulled on him as well. Now that the situation is turned around let's say the original "D=coach" is now the O-coach and is under the threat of having his runner removed, but knows the rule. You can't just make the same ruling as before because now you are faced with a protest that would be upheld.
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