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High School Baseball Arbitration - You blew up the car game and not my call Wrong!

I refereed an extremely competitive and hard-fought game of baseball school in a couple of days. My task was to be the field referee and my partner was assigned to home plate. We had our conference before the game with two head coaches and the boys seemed incredible. We shake hands and wish you all good luck. Child, things can change in a hurry and can thus personalities.

About the fourth inning, a player on either team is taking a big lead off second base. After three pitches, the receiver pulls behind him to second base. Everything looked like a runner would be intercepted. The launch of the receptor reached second base and beat the runner there. But the shot was high and the second was very good speed and went to second on a split second before being tagged. So to succeed the "safe" calls. This is when I heard the first of two grunts, call it coach Joe. Come on blue ... they throw beat him, etc. He complained for about ten seconds, so let it go and not say a word. If continued longer than that or if he said something inappropriate, would not have hesitated to have a "chat" with him.

OK, so things will calm down and return to play baseball. That is, until the seventh and final. The team led by Joe is to bat in the seventh and final and losing by one run. They have a runner on second base, in scoring position, representing the tying run. There are two outs and a hit to tie the game. As I said, very close and very competitive ball game!

The pitch to the batter is in the ground and bounces off the receiver, but only about three meters. Coach Joe is the basis third training and yells at his runner break for third base. The corridor runs from third base. The grass makes it very quick and good shot is a bit high. Knew that was fast, not because I was watching the receiver, but by how quickly reached third base.

The third baseman made a very quick tags and labels high corridor, around the chest area. Sincerely makes the right choice ... "It's out!" Coach Joe is very upset. As I said, personalities can change in a hurry on the ball field. I'm walking off the field and coach Joe yells at me, "I have in my head." I asked coach Joe what he meant. He said 'at the top, the runner should be safe. I said coach Joe where I care less marked.

Now I'm in territory foul and coach Joe yells at me, "That's a call that blew." (He was referring to another "pileup" that was at second base when I called the insurance broker.) I decided to ignore his last "parting shot" and just walk to my car. I was thinking of how to call all around a referee is going to please half the people and the other half will be, say, annoying.

I have a house in thirty minutes by car and obviously my thoughts my game is about to end "the call." I had mixed feelings and I have two thoughts going through my mind. One is that I have the right to call and that each objective A referee who cares what coach Joe thinks. The other idea is that I am a little worried because, as a referee, a good game usually when you do not notice at all. I want to make the game the players and the players decided to no longer be on the coaches or referees. But in this case, I was very much in the spotlight.

And then something occurred to me on the trainer Joe. Broke a cardinal rule of the game ... never make the third out of an entry in the third. So that, or thought the runner was safe or possibly he was trying to get the "heat" of him and his bad decision and try to blame me for their mistake enormous.

I had two days to digest this and I'm at peace with this situation. Honestly, I think I have both very close calls (fireworks) on the right. What You know what, I've grumbled a few umpires in my many years of training. And coach Joe does not "step over the line." As I that, for the most part I completely ignored it because its complaining not last too long or you would have a pretty conversation.

Hey, I could reach an arbiter, coach Joe again in a couple of weeks. Am I looking forward to it? My honest answer is: "No, I would not do." I have no idea if he has a grudge or how long has one to.

I'll tell you what I'm sure if. I enter the game with an open mind and make all the calls to the best absoluteness of my ability. I could care less what a player's uniform is using or if coach Joe is the coach or not. My main responsibility is to the children playing these games.

Hopefully, Coach Joe and I have no problem if we meet again.

I have the responsibility of children in the field to get the right call. My personal opinion is that the game should be players, not coaches or referees.

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