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Blueump

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I was watching a FED game as a fan instead of umpiring.  U1 was a bit inconsistent, but heck, it's still the beginning of the season here in Northern Michigan! About the 5th inning B1 is up with 2 outs and R3 itching to come home to tie up the game.  The count is 3-1 and the next pitch is a beauty.  U1 does his "magical" strike 3 dance, flips off his mask, and walks to his between inning spot up the line.  Everyone is shocked for a moment, but the defense hustles off the field while the HC jogs over to complain that it was only strike 2.

 

U1 continues shaking his head and refuses to get any help from his partner U2.  The HC continues to plead and finally, after the away team starts swinging their bats and the home team begins tossing the ball around the infield. the two umpires get together to discuss the count.  They determine a mistake has been made and call the batter back to finish his at bat.

 

This is where things get completely crazy!  The away team re-takes the field, R3 returns to 3rd, B1 steps to the plate.  As soon as the pitcher engages the rubber to prepare to pitch, U1 calls "time!" and declares R3 out for abandonment!  During the discussions and argument according to the U1 he apparently "entered the dugout, thus abandoning" his effort to gain home plate.  Again HC trys to argue, but now both U1 and U2 refuse to budge on this.

 

It gets pretty hard to keep your mouth shut when you see incompetence like this!

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Richvee
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The play that made me an umpire.   My son's major's LL all star district championship game. Top 6, down 1-0. Bases loaded 1out. GB to F4 pickes it up, puts it in his bare hand to throw to first, sla

Majordave
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I would have lost my appetite Bill. These EFFIN guys (umps like them-Bubba and Smitty) are why I decided to start umpiring.

maven
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Well, heck, it's Michigan.

Majordave

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@Blueump

What did you say to this crew, if anything?

 

I ask because I am trying to decide what I would or could say to something like that.  Especially if I did not know and was not in the same association as the umpires making that call.

 

I have observed really bad umpiring, after I became an umpire, before but I kept my mouth shut since it wasn't my place and I did not know the umpires.

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catsbackr

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Mind your business! This is not your game or your responsibility to insert yourself. Unless these umpires are in your association, walk away.

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Blueump

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I didn't confront the umpires afterward - they had enough of that without me piling on.  There were other calls afterward that were also "head shakers".  They clearly both had a lack of working knowledge with the rules!  It's hard to sit in the stands and watch two guys butcher the rules.  It's harder yet when many of the parents know you as an umpire and come ask you "what would you have called".  I just keep my mouth shut now - these are the guys that coaches refer to as "they last guys we had said..."

 

UNFORTUNATELY, with the lack of officials around here and the huge travel distances between schools - belonging to or attending association clinics and meetings is rarely done by anyone but the best umpires.  One needs only to send in their cash to the state to get certified.  I'd never seen these bozos before and I don't even asks for their name but I'm praying I don't end up getting assigned with either of them later this year!

Magic

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Well now that is one way to burn the place down. Blueump I do have a question for you. At what point during the S#/T Show did you make it over to the Snack Bar and get some popcorn and a Soda? This definitely would have been worth the price of admission.

Games Worked Too Damn Many

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Cav

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Not trying to come to this crew's defense, but it appears that the game got what it deserved: a game called by those available.  There are alternatives, none of which were chosen by any in attendance. 

Majordave

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I would have lost my appetite Bill. These EFFIN guys (umps like them-Bubba and Smitty) are why I decided to start umpiring.

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blue23ll

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Umpiring is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes caca happens.

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JaxRolo

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Umpiring is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes caca happens.

Mucha Caca

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Richvee

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I would have lost my appetite Bill. These EFFIN guys (umps like them-Bubba and Smitty) are why I decided to start umpiring.

The play that made me an umpire.

 

My son's major's LL all star district championship game. Top 6, down 1-0. Bases loaded 1out. GB to F4 pickes it up, puts it in his bare hand to throw to first, slaps R1 with the glove with the ball in his throwing hand above his his head. They call a double play. Our HC gets them to conference about it. (4 man crew). And they break and stay with the call. That's the day I knew I was going to be an umpire. 

 

sidenote- When I tell this story in front of my now 23 YO son, his reply is usually "Dad aren't you over that yet?" I tell him "No. Not really"

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stl_ump

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Umpiring is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes caca happens.

Mucha Caca

 

Mucha Caca - doesn't he play for Orlando City SC?  ;) 

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blue23ll

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Umpiring is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. Sometimes caca happens.

Mucha Caca

 

Mucha Caca - doesn't he play for Orlando City SC?  ;) 

 

Softball Club?

Rich Ives

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I would have lost my appetite Bill. These EFFIN guys (umps like them-Bubba and Smitty) are why I decided to start umpiring.

The play that made me an umpire.

 

My son's major's LL all star district championship game. Top 6, down 1-0. Bases loaded 1out. GB to F4 pickes it up, puts it in his bare hand to throw to first, slaps R1 with the glove with the ball in his throwing hand above his his head. They call a double play. Our HC gets them to conference about it. (4 man crew). And they break and stay with the call. That's the day I knew I was going to be an umpire. 

 

sidenote- When I tell this story in front of my now 23 YO son, his reply is usually "Dad aren't you over that yet?" I tell him "No. Not really"

 

 

misread - never mind.

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Majordave

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Your reading comprehension skills need improvement. The F4 slapped R1 with an empty glove as R1 ran past F4.

No way to call DP on offense when defense slaps a runner with a glove.

Rich Ives

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Your reading comprehension skills need improvement. The F4 slapped R1 with an empty glove as R1 ran past F4.

No way to call DP on offense when defense slaps a runner with a glove.

 

You're right - sorry.

maven

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Two words that every coach needs to learn when Dumb and Dumber are working... "I protest".

 

That's fine where it's allowed. No protests are permitted in many states' HS games, including mine. If coach can't carry the day on the field, the call stands.

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