Shouldn't have said it . . . but you did.

[The Man in Blue]

Working the Thursday-Friday front end of a HS tournament . . . 

Coach tells us before the game that his team decided to see if they could make more errors than runs the last game; they are off to a rough start.

During the game, IFF was on.  Batter pops one into the Bermuda Triangle behind first and second base.  Neither I nor my BU have any call on this.  F4 and F5 are both running, looking, and flopping around out there.  Of course, the ball drops and two runs score.  One parent is hollering about IFF, but nothing is said.

Between innings the coach stops and starts in on "Why wasn't there an IFF call?"  

I let him ask, and tell him, "Coach, that ball was in no man's land.  That was not a routine pop fly based on both infielders having to give it more than normal effort to get there."

He stars in on how he has 10 years of experience and that was horrible, "You need to call that!  My guys were like chickens with their heads cut off!  They almost ran into each other and could have gotten hurt on that play!"  

 

"That may be normal and routine for them, coach, but that doesn't make it an infield fly."

He walked away and the rest of the game was uneventful.

 

It's not my worst one . . . but what are your "Shouldn't have said it, but you did" stories?

 

[jimurrayalterego]

50 minutes ago, The Man in Blue said:

Working the Thursday-Friday front end of a HS tournament . . . 

Coach tells us before the game that his team decided to see if they could make more errors than runs the last game; they are off to a rough start.

During the game, IFF was on.  Batter pops one into the Bermuda Triangle behind first and second base.  Neither I nor my BU have any call on this.  F4 and F5 are both running, looking, and flopping around out there.  Of course, the ball drops and two runs score.  One parent is hollering about IFF, but nothing is said.

Between innings the coach stops and starts in on "Why wasn't there an IFF call?"  

I let him ask, and tell him, "Coach, that ball was in no man's land.  That was not a routine pop fly based on both infielders having to give it more than normal effort to get there."

He stars in on how he has 10 years of experience and that was horrible, "You need to call that!  My guys were like chickens with their heads cut off!  They almost ran into each other and could have gotten hurt on that play!"  

 

"That may be normal and routine for them, coach, but that doesn't make it an infield fly."

He walked away and the rest of the game was uneventful.

 

It's not my worst one . . . but what are your "Shouldn't have said it, but you did" stories?

 

Similar sitch, bases loaded, humpback to near the mound, F4 diving but it hit his glove and dropped in front of him, triple play. G.G a really good coach comes out to first year 6A fill in emergency ump. Was that an IFF. Me, "no it wasn't ordinary effort." How about intentional drop. Me "no he didn't try to drop it. You got screwed." Coach smiled and walked away. My partner told the "you got screwed" story for quite a while after that.

[Richvee]

18 hours ago, The Man in Blue said:

My guys were like chickens with their heads cut off!  They almost ran into each other

“Exactly, coach.”