And you thought you saw some bad umpiring......

[texasheat]

It’s sad that grown men getting paid to do a job can’t be better than that.

 

[Gtrips07]

I am waiting for video of my game last week to be posted somewhere ... if anybody sees a video of a 13u baseball "state championship" game that ends in chaos and umpires walking off under police protection, let me know.

Been there, done that. Dad and son ended up in cuffs

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[flash277]

Sorry, I didn't mean to highjack the thread ... I am still decompressing from it. I sat down and finally handwrote the notes of my account this week. I think it was the single worst day of my umpiring career. The heat and humidity were dangerous (not just miserable, DANGEROUS) all day (it was 85 degrees at 10:00 first pitch). We had players going down and throwing up on the turf, umpires going down (one was taken off in an ambulance to rehydrate him at the ER) ...

On top of that, the parents were atrocious all day. Combine the heat, it being a state tournament, and (this may be unfair of me, but I will say it) a massively overinflated sense of self-entitlement from a well-to-do area ... it was a recipe for disaster and we were gourmet chefs.

Yeah ... I will try to post it later tonight. I'm still not ready. Honestly, I have had bad moments, bad games, and bad days, but this is the first time I have felt actual trauma from umpiring.

@The Man In Blue I'm still waiting

 

[The Man In Blue]

... and I’m still shriveled up in a ball, hiding in my closet and crying intermittently.

 

[ChaosCoordinator16]

Yeah, I've got nothing.