A nightmare.. walkoff hs playoff IP..

[azbigdawg]

Im sorry, Wade..I had to laugh when I read that line about you leaving the field

Youre just an evil bastid.....

from what you posted here, you made the right call.... and you know how much it pains me to say youre right....

[wadeintothem]

Originally Posted by azbigdawg

Im sorry, Wade..I had to laugh when I read that line about you leaving the field

Youre just an evil bastid.....

from what you posted here, you made the right call.... and you know how much it pains me to say youre right....

It wasnt a chuckle it was more of a "muhahahahahaha" as I succumbed to the dark side of the force.

Actually, the reality is the call kept me awake that night, and too this very moment there has not been a bright side to it or a funny thing I can think of about it. I think if I had laughed on that field, there would have been a riot. The moment was surreal.

[azbigdawg]

Originally Posted by wadeintothem

It wasnt a chuckle it was more of a "muhahahahahaha" as I succumbed to the dark side of the force.

Actually, the reality is the call kept me awake that night, and too this very moment there has not been a bright side to it or a funny thing I can think of about it. I think if I had laughed on that field, there would have been a riot. The moment was surreal.

I believe the lack of sleep thing..and its only funny because I wasnt there. The ONLY alternative that I could think of was for your partner to step up and say he heard a time out, if he did. YOU didnt, so you did the right thing.

[cloverdale]

first lets be clear...sounds like a great call and i'll echo everyone else and say brass brass brass...thought that comes to mind are you sure that the coach didnt yell that to make F1 stop and get the IP call ? Could you have gotten together with your partner and go with a no pitch...

[wadeintothem]

Thats been the consensus of every umpire I've talked to thus far....

At the time I didnt consider it because it wasnt a no-pitch, it was an illegal pitch. I didnt know about the "time" thing until post game. I remember the coach said it, but he a 100 things, including there was no illegal pitch, calling me every name in the book.. and at the time it was not something I considered.

Maybe if the coach had been calm and just talked to me before ranting, I could have calmly got together with my partner.. but that is not what happened.. it was instant chaos and he went crazy, and I tuned him out and decided I was getting out of there before it got worse. It was not like the coach came out and said "blue, the other coach was yelling time, can you get with your partner and see..." .. When I called IP, he ran out of the dugout into my face going "Are you f'n kidding me and you f'n kidding me. That is the worst. You are terrible.. and on and on and on..

[Welpe]

Wade, I am disheartened to read this written about you. I used to have a quote in my signature that read "What is right, isn't always popular and what is popular, isn't always right." You, the umpire who was good enough to make it to this playoff game, made a good, gutsy call. Hold your head high in knowing you did the right thing.

[IRISHMAFIA]

#1. Base coach was addressing batter, not the umpire.
#2. Coach can only make request and did so of the wrong party.
#3. DC apparently has a few shortcomings when it comes to an expanded vocabulary.
#4. A properly coached pitcher would know to NEVER stop a delivery once started.
#5. Even if you did have an ear-to-ear grin or laughed, so what? The umpire is there to officiate a game for BOTH teams, not to commisserate over either team's issues, failures or lack of fortune. Anyone who doesn't understand that hasn't the authority to provide comment or opinion on sporting events.

JMO