When you think you've heard it all:-))
 

Had a very competitive JV game yesterday, with lot's of different scenario's occuring and I think my partner and I got them all called correctly. Then in the 5th inning the coach from one of the teams comes out to discuss my strike zone with me and say's the following: " You know if it wasn't for the fact that you're "consistently" calling low strikes I'd have said something sooner, but my last two batters struck out and I'M NOT HAPPY"!!!!!!!! To which I responded "Coach my job here isn't to make you or anybody else HAPPY, as my job is to call balls and strikes as I see them. Now you have a choice as to whether you'd like to not be happy from either the dugout OR the bus!!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't hear another word out of him:-))) I was calling them by the book and was very comfortable with my strike zone!!!!

"Were not talking about balls and strikes coach."

I'm my hardest evaluator.. I dont need his help.

Coach I'll put your happiness on my list of concerns, you're in at number 13 on the list.

J/K, firmly let the coach know that you will not discuss balls and strikes with him.

My most remembered ejection of all time. Bench coach comes out of the dugout and starts to complain.

Coach: Auugh, that's not a strike!
Me: Coach are you arguing balls and strikes.
Coach: Yes I am!
Me: Coach I am going to ask you that question one more time and if you say "yes", I will eject you. Coach, are you arguing balls and strikes?
Coach: YES I AM!
Me: You’re ejected sir.
Coach: Why? What did I do?

Some would see the questioning as baiting the coach. Not a wise thing to do. It is best to talk to coaches directly. In this case, simply state something along the lines of "we are not discussing the strike zone." I did tell a coach Friday that has a history of being a whiner, "Coach, I promise you that if you don't editorialize on my umpiring, I won't editorialize on your coaching." He grinned, said something to the effect of "so if I say anything else about the strike zone, I am gone, right?" My reply was "I just wanted to make sure we were on the same page." After that, he was my best buddy, saying something to me everytime he walked out to coach the bases.

Top of the first. I rang up the visitors clean-up hitter on a pitch that painted the outside corner for the third out. Coach walks by on the way to the first base dugout and says, "Your zone looks great, Blue. Don't change a thing." It wasn't until I got home that I realized that I had heard the most sportsmanlike way to say, "Call 'em both ways, Blue!"

Yeah, that has always been on my top ten list of stupid things you hear from players/coaches/parents in the top of the first ;)

Yeah but maybe he deserved a good baiting. :cool: