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Last weekend, I was working with a young umpire who is learning the ropes. I generally work 14U and older, but I agreed to work with this kid in the 8U division as a favor. Never again. The coaches and parents were completely insane, and it was hard to keep a straight face sometimes because the thought would continually creep into my head, "You know they are 8, don't you? You are acting ridiculous and this game is pretty much meaningless in terms of your child's baseball skill development." Of course, I remained professional, and didn't say this, but one guy actually made me and my partner laugh. The team, who was routinely being rung up on called strikes on the outside corner had a coach who came out to warm up their pitcher and while doing so looked at me and said very sarcastically, "Hey Blue, can we maybe keep the strike zone here." He said this while drawing an invisible square around home plate. Then he said, "I can't believe you called the one the catcher dropped a strike. That should have been a ball because he didn't even catch it." I laughed and said, "First of all, you can't argue balls and strikes, but if you expect an 8 year old to catch every strike then you are not in touch with reality." If they weren't 8 I may have dumped him for demonstrating but I just couldn't take the guy seriously. These people really need to lighten up. This is the last favor I'm doing for a long while.
