When you deal with the success or failure of someone’s child, it becomes hard to manage them at times. This should be easy but is very difficult to enforce. “People, coaches, players, and parents think umpires are there to make calls, but we are there to manage and control the game, keep it moving, control behavior, and make sure people are treated with respect. Baseball umpires at the local/youth level, in the eyes of fans and players alike, may seemingly be there to call balls and strikes or rule a baserunner safe or out.Īlthough those may be duties of umpires, Newtown Babe Ruth Baseball Umpire Coordinator Sean Kerins - who calls games himself - says there are three elements of umpiring: Managing the game, controlling the game, and keeping the integrity of the game.
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