The knuckle head committee

Yup, your UIC needs to grow some cojones and stop taking the calls.

We had a deputy UIC who took a "complaint" call on me from a slowpitch coed WRECK team who complained that I let a female batter decide after stepping in the box if she was going to take the walk or not (male had walked just before her), and she made her decision before a pitch could be pitched (of course, I hadn't exchanged the balls yet). The coach called the office the next day, and deputy UIC looked at the list of umpires working that night, and saw my name on the game (as well as partner's) and asked for a description of the home plate umpire. The coach described me to a T (right down to my hearing aid in the right ear) and the deputy UIC knew it was me right away. He listened to the coach rant and rant, but the whole time, he knew I had the call right. The coach finally said "you know, we moved to this league because we heard positive stuff about playing in this city, because we played across the river, had some problems with umpires, moved to one of the burbs to play and had problems with umpires and now we have problems with umpires again!" My dep UIC asked, "have you ever considered maybe YOU are the problem?" *CLICK*

I got an email later from dep UIC asking for my side of the story, and about an hour after I sent my response, his response: "I figured as much that they wanted to whine about an umpire doing his job! Keep up the good work." I don't think I ever could have beat my chest with pride as much as I could have that day!