- May 12, 2021
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We had an umpire (BU) that was constantly checking her phone throughout the game, which left her out of position multiple times. Should I have approached her during the game?
I'd approach the plate.umpire and tell him/her, they are The ones who run the game.We had an umpire (BU) that was constantly checking her phone throughout the game, which left her out of position multiple times. Should I have approached her during the game?
If you are at a tournament, you don't approach the umpires - you go find the UIC or the Tournament Director (or call them if they are not onsite). This is unacceptable to be doing this during game play and is HIGHLY questionable even between inning. Frankly it makes me furious and as an umpire if I saw my partner doing it would be ripping into them and reporting them to the UIC/TD myself.We had an umpire (BU) that was constantly checking her phone throughout the game, which left her out of position multiple times. Should I have approached her during the game?
I no longer use my phone to keep time in tournaments for appearance reasons... i bought a digital cook timer with a magnet i can stick on the fence
Preventative umpiring?
We had an umpire (BU) that was constantly checking her phone throughout the game, which left her out of position multiple times. Should I have approached her during the game?
Definitely checking her phone. She would typically take it out after a play, between innings & between batters. Honestly, I wouldn't be upset about it, but she was out of position on some calls both against our team and for our team. In my first year coaching a 10u TB team, I had an umpire tell me before a game that she would be checking her phone throughout the game because her daughter was in labor and she was expecting a call that her first grandkid was born. We kind of chuckled a bit and said we didn't have a problem with it....Are you sure she was "checking her phone"? Last year we had an umpire who had a clicker app on her phone. I knew what she was doing, but the parents didn't and a few were complaining about it (and when she blew a call, the complaining got worse even though the phone had nothing to do with the mistake).