Plate Conf WTH?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

You could have told him, "yeah, thanks for getting everyone together for me," then proceed with your plate conference.

Several "creative" ways to handle it and get my point across flew through my mind over the next minute or so...

[Welpe]

I had a jr high basketball game this last season that my partner started 25 minutes early because the coaches wanted to him. Considering I try to arrive to jr high games about 20 minutes before, this was not so good.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Interesting story from a fellow umpire this past weekend.

He overheard a pre-game between a LH or maybe an Local Anti-hero (LAH) and his travel partner at a recent 18U tournament on the East Coast. Apparently, it went on for 25 + minutes and includes a fair amount of war story-type situations.

A few games later when this umpire was assigned to work with the LAH, the LAH approached him to have a pre-game and asked my friend what he would like to discuss. My friend's response was, "okay, everything by the book. If you are going to diviate, we will communicate". The LAH was dumbfounded and asked, "is that it?" and my friend said, "what else is there?" and headed to the field.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Interesting story from a fellow umpire this past weekend.

He overheard a pre-game between a LH or maybe an Local Anti-hero (LAH) and his travel partner at a recent 18U tournament on the East Coast. Apparently, it went on for 25 + minutes and includes a fair amount of war story-type situations.

A few games later when this umpire was assigned to work with the LAH, the LAH approached him to have a pre-game and asked my friend what he would like to discuss. My friend's response was, "okay, everything by the book. If you are going to diviate, we will communicate". The LAH was dumbfounded and asked, "is that it?" and my friend said, "what else is there?" and headed to the field.

Was that... very recent? Maybe local?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by NCASAUmp

Was that... very recent? Maybe local?

Last weekend in a tidewater area.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Last weekend in a tidewater area.

Ahhh... We just had our 18U National Qualifier very recently.

[Gulf Coast Blue]

There is a local guy here who has probably had issues with every coach in the tri-county area at one time or another.

He always says at his plate conferences......."I don't care what has happened in the past, but this is your only warning for bad behavior". Sets the tone for the rest of the game.......sigh

I try not to work with him, but he calls every night and every tournament. It is impossible to avoid him the whole year.

There is another umpire who worked for me and I had to fire a number of years back.......I have been able to get the scheduler to avoid ever calling with him though. I still umpire with his wife from time to time.

Joel