Umpire in high school baseball game ejects entire crowd

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Not news: Heckle the umpire on a close call. News: That's an ejection. freeones: For the whole crowd.

I have never cared for referees or umpires and this just solidifies my resolve to heckle them even more.

In junior high my football team sucked so bad the officials wanted us to forfeit the rest of our season after the sixth game. We put in the effort and practiced hard but we had little talent at the skill positions and a very small line. When the officials came to break the news to my team everyone went a little bananas on them and we almost had a few parents get into fist fights with league officials over it. One of my buddies on another team (and plays drums for Slipknot now) walked over to the commissioner of the league and started berating him in front of the entire assemblage. I'll never forget him just going after him like a pit bull. From that time on whenever I was on the field if I had an opportunity to hit a referee who might be in the way, I took it.

This guy just sounds like a thin skinned fascist.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090612/SPORTS/90612021

 

[shayd]

Eh, I guess this is a border line example, but by in large, I side with the officials in most amateur athletics. Yeah, I think they're probably worse than professionals, but there are so many amateur athletes these days that think they're better than everyone, and if a call goes against them, they go ballistic. I've personally seen parents threaten umpires in my nephews JV baseball game, (mind you they were the parents of one of my nephews teammates), after the umpires made the right call. I just think in general amateur athletes need to realize that aside from the 5% percent that have the talent to go onto professional sports, they're not that good, and just need to play their respective game, whether they get the calls or not.

 

[Skyraider22]

Wow kind of shock to hear about this at a high school baseball game but I guess when things get heated this is what happens no matter what level it is on nice story.

 

[busenbust]

Rematch ??

 

[bandanoantri]

Referees in every sport suck, period! First of all there's so many bad calls, in every sport, and secondly, all those referees and umpires take themselves way too seriously. By now they should get it, it's not about them, it's about the game, they're here to regulate it, not star in it.

But you gotta love those shouting matches in Baseball and even in Tennis. Damn shame there's noone like John McEnroe around any longer, Marat Safin and Andy Roddick don't even come close but they do like to argue close calls and voice their disagreement.

 

[busenbust]

^True. The technology is improving to help (confuse?) matters: slow-mo replay and computer-sync line calls etc.

 

[shayd]

^True. The technology is improving to help (confuse?) matters: slow-mo replay and computer-sync line calls etc.

That's not going to stop anyone. Even if you take all of the humans out of officiating, and the results were computed and found to be 100% accurate, some brat athlete will always think they're right and the call was wrong. It's the nature of athletics to be competitive, but if you ask me, amateur athletes these days take it way overboard.

 

[DukeLaCrosse]

Not news: Heckle the umpire on a close call. News: That's an ejection. freeones: For the whole crowd.

I have never cared for referees or umpires and this just solidifies my resolve to heckle them even more.

In junior high my football team sucked so bad the officials wanted us to forfeit the rest of our season after the sixth game. We put in the effort and practiced hard but we had little talent at the skill positions and a very small line. When the officials came to break the news to my team everyone went a little bananas on them and we almost had a few parents get into fist fights with league officials over it. One of my buddies on another team (and plays drums for Slipknot now) walked over to the commissioner of the league and started berating him in front of the entire assemblage. I'll never forget him just going after him like a pit bull. From that time on whenever I was on the field if I had an opportunity to hit a referee who might be in the way, I took it.

This guy just sounds like a thin skinned fascist.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090612/SPORTS/90612021

slipknot sucks

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Wow. Out of that whole rant you decided to find fault with the most incidental piece? I think they suck too, by the way, but I could've found something wrong with something a little more substantial in my thought process.

 

[The Paulinator]

Wow. Out of that whole rant you decided to find fault with the most incidental piece? I think they suck too, by the way, but I could've found something wrong with something a little more substantial in my thought process.

How about this?
You accidently spelled Fark F-R-E-E-O-N-E-S
I knew I knew you from somewhere else. Member since 2004

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

How about this?
You accidently spelled Fark F-R-E-E-O-N-E-S
I knew I knew you from somewhere else. Member since 2004

Guilty. But it all occurred near my hometown, so keep it under your hat.

 

[calpoon]

and this is why baseball is a pussy sport.

If this had been a soccer game the crowd would have severely injured or killed the ref and the police officers and burnt down the arena.

 

[The Paulinator]

slipknot sucks

Way to contribute something to the discussion

Guilty. But it all occurred near my hometown, so keep it under your hat.

:hatsoff:<--This hat? But people can peek when I doff my chapeau. We are now both confessed Farkers.

If this had been a soccer game the crowd would have severely injured or killed the ref and the police officers and burnt down the arena.

The referee would not have dared attempt ejecting a soccer crowd. That would have been some good television (I mean in Brazil or Europe or the like, not a Southwestern US youth soccer game)(Where they "don't" keep score)

 

[Kingfisher]

Can he do that?

 

[The Paulinator]

Can he do that?

:dunno:I used to referee kids ice hockey. I don't think they covered ejecting the whole crowd. One parent, you hold the puck and run the clock until he leaves (or the other parents watching their league dues trickle away make him leave).

But I agree, if you have thin skin, it is not a job for you. USAHockey official training is more thorough than what I can only imagine baseball is, probably pay $35 and a half hour later, you get your very own "petty tyrant license"

 

[Facial_King]

I have never cared for referees or umpires and this just solidifies my resolve to heckle them even more.

(blah, blah, blahbiddy-blah) ....From that time on whenever I was on the field if I had an opportunity to hit a referee who might be in the way, I took it.

This guy just sounds like a thin skinned fascist.

Huh??? Oh yeah, nobody earns my respect more than the guy in the crowd who heckles the ref or the umpire! Or the player who intentionally hits them!



Yeah, really, these sports should be played without any kind of officiating.

 

[shayd]

:dunno:I used to referee kids ice hockey. I don't think they covered ejecting the whole crowd. One parent, you hold the puck and run the clock until he leaves (or the other parents watching their league dues trickle away make him leave).

But I agree, if you have thin skin, it is not a job for you. USAHockey official training is more thorough than what I can only imagine baseball is, probably pay $35 and a half hour later, you get your very own "petty tyrant license"

It's not quite that easy, but compared to other sports, at the amateur level becoming an umpire is relatively easy. But that's primarily because the qualified umpires picked up and started officiating professional games to make more money, and enjoy union benefits.