Youtube - Brian Walker

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Originally posted by dave0mary:
For those that haven't seen it, it's a classic. From a few years ago.
If you're new at umping, let this video be a lesson to you ... NEVER EVER take any personal attacks from anyone. EVER. Immediate ejection. Verbal, pointing a bat/glove/other. You will then be respected next time you go to that field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26axJdDKYWw

On a related note, the sky is blue.

I remember this one.. the player faked being hit by the pitch..... (the video is conclusive no HBP)...then proceeds to put on an act...then promptly strikes out...

and blames the HPU.....once he jabbed the bat at the HPU, he was gonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne...

The only thing I would have done was I would have tossed the HC as well for arguing that ejection.....

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Originally posted by piaa_ump:
I remember this one.. the player faked being hit by the pitch...

Walker, after a year in the rookie leagues, has spent the past two years bouncing back and forth between long A and AA. He is still known by the Cal league umpires as a whiner.

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On a related note, the sky is blue.[/QUOTE]

Actually, the sky, or any other color is NOT blue ... or the color you perceive things to be. Physics lesson for today: you are seeing the color that is reflected back to you because the object, or sky, is all other colors but the color you see.
Also, in case you were being a bit on the turdy side, I did say "if you're new at umpiring". Alot of guys starting out have a rough few years because they don't have an idea what to accept/not accept. If they can hang in there with some direction and encouragement from us, maybe we can help them have a great career with the best job in the world.

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Originally posted by dave0mary:
For those that haven't seen it, it's a classic. From a few years ago.
If you're new at umping, let this video be a lesson to you ... NEVER EVER take any personal attacks from anyone. EVER. Immediate ejection. Verbal, pointing a bat/glove/other. You will then be respected next time you go to that field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26axJdDKYWw

What a punk. If you ask me, that looks like steroid-induced rage.

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Originally posted by dave0mary:
you are seeing the color that is reflected back to you because the object, or sky, is all other colors but the color you see.

I certainly hope you are not a physics teacher. If only it were this simple. Sometimes it is the reflection of wavelenghts (not colors) and sometimes it is the absorption of wavelenghts anb sometimes it's....well you get the picture, hopefully.

However, I was not writing a paper on the physics of light and color, I was speaking as it is commonly perceived. In my world, the sky is blue, on most days. It could be polka-dot for all I know in your world.

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Also, in case you were being a bit on the turdy side, I did say "if you're new at umpiring". Alot of guys starting out have a rough few years because they don't have an idea what to accept/not accept.

If there is anyone, umpire or not, who wouldn't understand that Walker's behavior was unacceptable, I'd like to meet him. Then again, maybe I wouldn't.

I'm willing to bet that someone with no experience whatsoever in umpiring would have read your comments as having come from a "Captain Obvious."

Wait a minute...I'll conduct an experiment right now. My wife has company over. A nice neighbor who has never umpired. I'll play the video for her.

Be right back.

Okay, done. I played the video with the sound off and stopped it after Walker jabbed his bat at the umpire. At that point, Anne (my wife's friend) said, "Wow, shouldn't he be punished for that? Would they let him play the game after he does something like that?"

I think, at best, you have very low expectations of others' abilities to understand behaviour and consequences.

Or, you just have a knack for pointing out the obvious.

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Or, you just have a knack for pointing out the obvious.

It's obvious you are a pure jerk. I'll tell you again ... the post was for new umps to know what to take/not take. That's TWO times I've mentioned that in reply.
... and that's obvious.

I notice it took you a while so you could go to you jr. college for one night to learn to rebut me. It's OBVIOUS what your type is.

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Originally posted by dave0mary:

I notice it took you a while so you could go to you jr. college for one night to learn to rebut me. It's OBVIOUS what your type is.

Ahhhhh....the danger of assuming.

In reality, I was out of town working games. Some of us do more than talk about umpiring.

My ability to rebut your version of physics was obtained in 6th grade.

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Originally posted by Jimmy03:

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Originally posted by dave0mary:

I notice it took you a while so you could go to you jr. college for one night to learn to rebut me. It's OBVIOUS what your type is.

Ahhhhh....the danger of assuming.

In reality, I was out of town working games. Some of us do more than talk about umpiring.

My ability to rebut your version of physics was obtained in 6th grade.

... and you became a jerk - when?

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Originally posted by dave0mary:

... and you became a jerk - when?

Probably as soon as I resort to this kind of a rebuttal.

Time to move on. (Just thinking outloud, not making a suggestion to anyone but myself.)

Dave:
This is a type of discussion that is not needed or to be tolerated. This discussion is now done.