[Mariner]

"And the players DON’T like it, and neither do the coaches. NOBODY venerates the idiocy of the rule book having no meaning because each ump is making it up on their own. "

Bullshit.

[discostu]

Right, players and coaches LOVE having unreliable umps, that’s why they so regularly scream at the ump until he throw them out. They’re telling the ump how much they love him.

Meanwhile, back in reality, crappy umps have been killing the game for 20 years.