Those sneaky player comments?

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Originally Posted by vcblue

My goal is to keep every one on the field.

I couldn't disagree more with this comment in general. You do the job of officiating and managing the game, not the personnel. If someone crosses the line, you get rid of them regardless of the situation or available substitutes.

Don't get me wrong, an umpire needs to understand everyone's job on the field and allow them to do that job and that includes discussing plays and calls, but in a calm and collected manner. Screaming and hollering at an umpire only conveys anger and ignorance, not doing a job and/or protecting a player.

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I have too often run into people who brag about keeping players in the game for XXX years. I don't question their abilities or management, but when they are the only umpire in a certain area who has zero ejections working the same teams as everyone else, something is wrong.

I work in an area where we were losing 2-4 umpires a year specifically because of the behavior of the players. That does not include the 1-2 a year we would lose at a specific Independence Day tournament because the players. And you know who was at fault? The local umpires who were told to try and keep players in the game. They did and the players believed that it was okay to act the ***. And when they did get tossed by an umpire who wouldn't put up with it, obviously, that umpire became the WOE.

All I want umpires to do is the job. That job does not include taking abuse and when that does happen, the umpire's job is to manage the game and sometimes that includes getting rid of a player.
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