2. Crazy Coach and Players
I once played in a tournament where my team went up against the home town team. Turns out they were a bunch of goons, hacking and slashing the crap out of my teammates and I, with one opposing player literally running into people's stomachs with his head down like a battering ram I shit you not. The refs did what they could to contain it (which basically was nothing) most stuff went unpunished. The head butting jackass got tossed but they let so much go. Two of our guys got hurt and our coach finally snapped and told us we were done and had us skate off while they helped the second injured player off. The ref came over and told the coach that if we left the ice surface that counted as a forfeit. The coach turned and said "if you gave a fuck about my players safety it might be worth sticking it out but as is you, the other ref and the other team can go to hell." The parents of our team, plus some random other who had stuck around to watch, started cheering while the opposing team AND COACH proceeded to yell insults. Got to the change room, our coach said he was proud of us for not stooping to that level and trying to play a good clean game. The organizers came to apologize and told us the other team had been tossed from the tourney. Pretty embarrassing stuff to pull on home ice.
3.Sorry but he was out
When I was 16, I was umpiring the championship game of the baseball league for 9-10 year olds in my city with a friend of mine. The team in the field is up by 1 in the last inning and there are 2 outs with the bases loaded. Parents are SCREAMING in excitement.
The batter smacks a line drive that falls in front of the right fielder, the runner on 3rd scored easily and the runner that was on 2nd is trying to score as well. The throw from the right fielder is way off but there's one problem, the 2nd kid never touched home plate. He stepped right over it. So while the team that thinks they just won is celebrating the catcher picks the ball up and tags the runner who missed home plate. I called him out. The parents went crazy. Cursing at me at the top of their lungs in front of their kids and even going as low as throwing stuff at me. It was pretty terrible.
Turns out one of the parents was recording the game and between innings he showed me what he had recorded. I was right, the kid was never even close to touching the plate. The team that thought they had won ended up losing in 8 innings. He showed the video to the rest of the parents and a few of the people slipped me some extra money after the game for treating me so poorly. However, one parent did confront me in the parking lot and tried to fight me until he was dragged away by his wife.
4. Reminds me of when I played in a sober league several years ago on my dad's team. One guy on
the other team had a major issue with the ump all game, and the ump's kid was there so he was getting uncomfortable about being there. The guy on the other team brandished his bat at him so the ump called the game off and immediately left. No one blamed him.
We played that team a few more times over the season, with the offender no longer there. It wasn't until one of the last games we played them they decided they wanted to make up that game - and it certainly had nothing to do with the fact that two of our best players couldn't make it. They bullied the ump into playing a second game that evening by claiming the ump for the earlier game called it off for a bad reason.
5. My first game umpiring was 9/10 year olds when I was 15. I had a terrible angle on a close play at
third, but the kid looked out to me so that's what I called. The coach went fucking ballistic. He screamed in my face for a few minutes, then went back to the dugout. The other coach was a friend's dad and he told me if the guy wouldn't shut up to throw him out. Guess what happened.
