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I did the exact same thing for the league that I was UIC for. We bought about 5 of these Honig K6 protectors:

This jackwagon has done this before, it's well documented, and it makes the news and you tube. Maybe that's why he's still managing AA ball after many years? I can't imagine any team wanting to put up with his stuff for very long.

While I agree with confronting the 'yelling across the field' issue immediately, I don't agree that yelling yourself sends the right message. What I do is call time, beckon the coach to have a conversation, and explain to him one on one that yelling at me is not allowed. It doesn't happen twice.

Batter hits a pitch that bounced in the dirt for a single, DHC comes out.." Don't you know that when a pitch hits the dirt its a dead ball, learn the rules, blue"...I couldn't stop laughing.

I mean come on, Pagan wasn't even looking at you!!

The key is that the ball hit the catchers glove first.

He uses a broken one now

Carl C. has advocated working solo from behind the mound. I have done it only once, when I got 'volunteered' to work a game out of the stands and I didn't have any gear, and it was not pretty. To me, one man is a disaster waiting to happen in most cases, no matter where you are. I work a couple of solo games a year, and I never mention it during the plate meeting, its not really necessary because everyone sees you are by yourself. And I would never throw my assignor under the bus either, if you ever tried assigning, you know how tough it is.

There is no way to call obstruction on an umpire. Apart from calling interference in certain circumstances, there is no recourse on this. Like @johnnyg08 has said, the umpire needs to get the heck out of the way.

There are STILL some in our association who only have navy.

First, keep the report simple. The 5 W's, who, what, why, when and where. I put the reason for the EJ in the subject line. Re: Ejection of Assistant Coach Joe Schmuck for arguing balls and strikes... The coaches in both situations literally ejected themselves. Don't say anything more than once, three times is 2 times too many. Where is your partner, he should be coming in and corralling these yahoo's and escorting them off the field.

I think it's kind of neat to be able to hear what the umpire is saying.

Any time a pitch hits a batter, the ball is dead.

These kind of situations require flexibility. I suspect that I would have been in tears as well. This is such a sad situation for everyone.

Whats up with all the arguing about balls and strikes? And the EJ's keep coming...

In a rule interpretation situation, we have to get it right, no question about it. If it's a protestable situation, it must be handled by the crew. As was mentioned, if its judgement, we live or die by our calls.

If someone has an issue with you putting your water bottle next to the fence, then that person can hold it for you and bring it to you between innings.

First lesson, we live or die by our calls. The ones we can change to make right, we do it. We take care of our s**t, we keep our hands out of our partners s**t unless he asks us. Plain and simple. No matter how 'bad' an umpire your partner is or isn't, you are the one who looks worse in this scenario. We live and learn, as long as we keep learning. I commend you for manning up and owning this, that is a tremendous thing to do and it proves to me that you are wanting to learn and get better.

Thank you Don Quixote

Now now @majordave, my back is getting better...

I do collect lineups for about 99% of the games I do. I also have a collection of old line up cards in my equipment bag.

Which is why FED needs to revise their balk rule.

Good call!

I noticed the 'rank' feature and I'm wondering how it's calculated and what it means. Thanks.

It's perfectly acceptable. Your partner is a OOO.