Children Should be Seen But Not Heard; Umpires Should be Heard but Not Seen

Please accept my apologies for my ejection from yesterday's game. I have gotten better at staying in games, but apparently have room for improvement. I will continue to improve my techniques of presenting my case with umpires while staying within the bounds they control.

Let me please explain my mindset, and fully explain the reasons for my ejection.

My belief in this great game of ours is that the umpire while being in control of the game, does this role best when they are quite invisible and not injecting themselves into the game. The umpire inserted himself into the game yesterday when he called Nick out for not sliding. Had he not made that call, no one would have been asking for Nick to be called out as Nick had obviously avoided contact with the catcher. I am a huge believer in safety for competition at this level and would take any player out of the game who would maliciously injure a player from another team.

His ruling that anytime there was a play and the runner was within arms length of another player a slide was necessary was absolutely wrong.

I want everyone to know that while in my argument with this umpire, the transgression which caused my ejection was not due to using profane language, nor did I use abusive language but I apparently crossed the line when I indicated my belief that one always seems to get calls like this (one sided) in Kent, and after being cautioned to end my conversation, I repeated this theory to Coach Bishop apparently within earshot of this umpire.


This proves another theory I have on umpires, the more wrong they are, the quicker they are to toss you.

In retrospect, I was wrong and my ejection could have been prevented by better actions on my part. Again, I apologize to the team, and the parents.