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Originally Posted by The Poet
On the one hand, I feel your pain. There are hundreds of bad calls in baseball every season, and the umps act like little tin gods. On the other hand, there are hundreds of bad calls every season, and it has been so for well over a century. It's all part of the game. You don't always like it, I don't always like it, but we all just have to suck it up.
That's baseball, baby. Just my  .
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I been playing ball or coaching ball all my life.
I've had exactly one incident with an umpire, who happened to be a good friend of mine.
He ejected a kid for saying something she didn't say. Everyone on both teams and the stands agreed. When he told me I was next, I stopped the game, peeled his ass royal, and he didn't toss me. I got a standing O.
The refs or umps are part of any game. Bad calls are always going to happen. My philosophy has always been that a team, and myself, need to play that much better.
I have never, and will never, believe a bad call "lost the game" for anyone at any time. There's always opportunity to do better before, during and after the game so that I'm never in a position that one "bad call" is going to decide the game.
I will agree that it sucks when you're on the short end of the stick, but that's the way she goes. I never had a tantrum when we won a game because of a bad call, that's for sure.