Coach Gone Wild !

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by justcallmeblue

Bulls**t the EN-VOUGE expression.

I had called a lookback rule in a 10U travel game (ASA) and the coach went ballistic on me. . .came running down the 3rd base line using the words BS about a dozen times.

Couldn't care less what was coming out of his mouth as long as it wasn't a personal assault on anyone, umpire, player or another coach.

It was so obvious a call, my dead, blind dog could have made the call. Anyway, after letting him vent, he walks back to 3rd and I hear "I am going to call your assignor and tell him you have no damn clue. . .that was BS." To which I promptly warned him. . .

Well, IMO, that is where you may have made a mistake. You allowed him to say his peace, okay, that is where is should have ended. The comments on the way back to the box he isn't supposed to have left probably should have been the punch of his ticket home. "Warnings" have become perceived as an entitlement in the game of softball. Don't know how many times I've seen someone get dumped and the first thing out of their mouth is, "there was no warning" or something similar. If the coach did something you felt wrong enough to warn, you probably should have dumped him then and there.

he says "Great, I have somewhere else I have to be." Now, seeing it was a 90 degree plus day with high humidity and his bald head was beading with sweat, I didnt throw him out - your kids are suffering in this heat - well, so are you.

BUT THEN

After the inning, the opposing bench coach pulled me aside and told me that he wasnt going to take that coaches BS anymore. I asked him what happend and the opposing coach said that as the BS-yelling coach walked back to third base, he told the opposing coach to "Sit his fat *** back on the f*&^ing bench" (I wish I would have heard that).

See previous paragraph

Anyway, I called my assignor 20 minutes after the game, but the coach already beat me to it. . .that coach conveniently left out the BULL**** statements, the real scenario of the play and his comments to the other coach.

Who cares? If you assigner did anything more than listening and hanging up when the coach was done, he isn't worth working for.

Well, after the game was over, the coach at 1B at the time of the LBRule play pulled me over and told me "That was 100% the right call blue, we teach this day in and day out. . . " not that I needed it, but i was VINDICATED

Maybe he should have told that to his coach, not you.

[3afan]

totally agree w/ LIump - you blew this one. after the first B*LLSH*T the coach should have been gone, no questions.

[bigsig]

Had 12U game, called IF. Offensive Coach comes out screaming "what kind of a call is that?" I said "coach, the infield fly rule is to protect your runners." His response, " so you called my batter out to protect us? Protection like that we don't need!"

Got to love it.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by bigsig

Had 12U game, called IF. Offensive Coach comes out screaming "what kind of a call is that?" I said "coach, the infield fly rule is to protect your runners." His response, " so you called my batter out to protect us? Protection like that we don't need!"

Got to love it.

Wonder how he would feel about a triple play on such a hit?

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by justcallmeblue

Bulls**t the EN-VOUGE expression.

I had called a lookback rule in a 10U travel game (ASA) and the coach went ballistic on me. . .came running down the 3rd base line using the words BS about a dozen times. It was so obvious a call, my dead, blind dog could have made the call. Anyway, after letting him vent, he walks back to 3rd and I hear "I am going to call your assignor and tell him you have no damn clue. . .that was BS." To which I promptly warned him. . .he says "Great, I have somewhere else I have to be." Now, seeing it was a 90 degree plus day with high humidity and his bald head was beading with sweat, I didnt throw him out - your kids are suffering in this heat - well, so are you.

BUT THEN

After the inning, the opposing bench coach pulled me aside and told me that he wasnt going to take that coaches BS anymore. I asked him what happend and the opposing coach said that as the BS-yelling coach walked back to third base, he told the opposing coach to "Sit his fat *** back on the f*&^ing bench" (I wish I would have heard that).

Anyway, I called my assignor 20 minutes after the game, but the coach already beat me to it. . .that coach conveniently left out the BULL**** statements, the real scenario of the play and his comments to the other coach.

Well, after the game was over, the coach at 1B at the time of the LBRule play pulled me over and told me "That was 100% the right call blue, we teach this day in and day out. . . " not that I needed it, but i was VINDICATED

I am going to come down hard on you too. The instant the Coach charged out of the Coach's Box toward you screaming at you, he should have been told to keep on running to the parking lot.

MTD, Sr.

[Steve M]

The problem is - when a problem coach is not dealt with properly - there's a mess left for the next umpire to clean up. Anyone want to talk about a buddy-'F'-er?