Found this on YouTube

[Chris Hickman]

At first I didn't know if this was a joke or real. I think it is real.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oguN3zQtDNQ

[JaxRolo]

wont let me open that video

[johnnyg08]

wont let me open that video

Take the "m" out of the url...looks like Chris posted this from his phone.

Keep the "www" out of it as well and it should work.

[yawetag]

Here you go:

[mstaylor]

Thanks, I think. That was wrong on so many levels.

[semper_fi_72]

Instead of Tom the Umpire, it should be titled Tom the Loser.

He really sucks.

I wouldn't put him on the field to work any level.

[sdix00]

No way this is real. That was awesome.

Description says he is a volunteer umpire. But in the film he says its good for extra money.

If he is a volunteer, fine. If that was his first day, fine. I hope he got better.

[grayhawk]

"I kind of learned on my own...by watching umpires on TV."

[cbiesecker]

His cap wasn't creased, but at least it wasn't backwards.

[UMP45]

The sad part is somewhere someone is having to come in behind an "umpire" like this! :WTF

[Welpe]

I'm sure glad there's no video of me working my first few years of Little League.

It seems to me to be a lack of training. Some people simply lack interpersonal skills that can make them effective communicators which I think can exacerbate the issue. I have a hard time faulting somebody being a Smitty that knows no different.

[Moriarty_45]

Wow. I feel better now about my SH*#ty performance from yesterday. Thanks for the post.

[Triguy29]

The problem is this guy is in the stage of knowledge where he doesnt know what he doesn't know. He thinks he knows everything and maybe eventually he will pick up a book that shows him what umpiring really is. When I started my first few months I didn't know that there were mechanics so I certainly didn't know what good mechanics were. He also seems like he may be slow/have social issues. He does seem clueless about the rules which is also a problem.

[zm1283]

He says something around :40 about "It kinda turns me on".

Whoa.

Edit: "They get off on me".

This is just disturbing.

[mstaylor]

I'm sure glad there's no video of me working my first few years of Little League.

It seems to me to be a lack of training. Some people simply lack interpersonal skills that can make them effective communicators which I think can exacerbate the issue. I have a hard time faulting somebody being a Smitty that knows no different.

I agree that with no training it is hard to know what you don't know. The problem is somebody thought it was good enough to film it and post it. The argument at the plate on the slide rule is a perfect example of why these rules are stupid. You take a bad rule with 1000 holes in it, add two managers that don't understand it and an umpire that doesn't either and it's a mess. At the end he says he knows he called it correctly, which is interesting because he was all over the place before he settled on an answer. HTH does he know if he got it right? This also wasn't LL because they had ondeck batters, and some other oddities that were illegal.

[zm1283]

I'm sure glad there's no video of me working my first few years of Little League.

It seems to me to be a lack of training. Some people simply lack interpersonal skills that can make them effective communicators which I think can exacerbate the issue. I have a hard time faulting somebody being a Smitty that knows no different.

I agree that with no training it is hard to know what you don't know. The problem is somebody thought it was good enough to film it and post it. The argument at the plate on the slide rule is a perfect example of why these rules are stupid. You take a bad rule with 1000 holes in it, add two managers that don't understand it and an umpire that doesn't either and it's a mess. At the end he says he knows he called it correctly, which is interesting because he was all over the place before he settled on an answer. HTH does he know if he got it right? This also wasn't LL because they had ondeck batters, and some other oddities that were illegal.

Around 7:20 after the play at home and ensuing argument, he says in the interview "I could have thrown him out right there....because he interrupted my game...know what I mean?"

This is comical, but this guy has some issues.

[mstaylor]

No, he didn't interrupt his game, he questioned his knowledge of an incredibly stupid rule that he probably voted for. Mandatory slides have to TOP the list of stupid and dangerous local rules.

[KLAH316]

Why is he debating and justifying himself with the parents??? OMG!!! :smachhead:

[KLAH316]

....and the shine on that shirt!!!! :WTF

[Welpe]

The problem is somebody thought it was good enough to film it and post it.

Somebody that no doubt knows less about umpiring than him. Reading the end of it (yes I watched the whole thing), it was filmed by his brother.

[scrounge]

"My goal is to be a major league umpire"...

And my equally probable goal is to be the King of Saturn

[th3]

there is obvoulsy something wroing with the guy and the video was obviously edited by an umpire who would know the things that get under other umpires skin

[umped up]

That righ there folks is some good comic relief. Forgive me for saying, bless his heart.

[capnumpire]

Anyone notice his # 00...

I got a kick out of that.

[umped up]

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