Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Discussions: Your Ejections

Fantasy? Tonight we ask, "What if you were an umpire in the UEFL?" Judging by our current poll (so far), it looks like many of us here have called some ball. In your experience as an umpire, surely players, coaches - and you - haven't always seen eye to eye. Sure, the school, youth, or recreation level may not produce the volume of ejections seen at the professional level, but undoubtedly, there have been times where discipline has been levied. As one of our Facebook Followers, Josh pointed out:
we should have a place to keep track of our own ejections.....it would be interesting to hear the circumstances that led to the EJ, the same way we read about the events leading up to the ones in the majors....just a thought!
Discussion point: So until we get a membership ejection page set up, let's start here, with this post. Just as Josh asked, what are your tales of ejections from your very own games? How did it happen? Who got dumped...and by whom? Why? What was the argument over... and what would your (or your partner's) Quality of Correctness have been?

But before we begin the discussion... let's recall the world in which we live. Technology has been used time and time again to discredit just about anyone for just about anything. Sports officials simply don't need that. So before you say "I'm John Doe of the ABC-18U League in Citytown, Statesville, and I ejected Coach Q Public because I didn't like his tone," take an extra second to remove some personally identifiable information. You never know who is watching, and it's always safer to be vague. Make no mistake, we still want to hear about the Type B Obstruction call you totally nailed that the coach completely didn't understand, but maybe leave out the coach's name, and yours, as well. Team A works just fine. It's okay, over half of our commenters refer to themselves as "Anonymous." That said, how do you rate in the members' UEFL?