In the scenario I outlined in the previous parts of this series, the umpire did not do anything that was, by itself, wrong. His judgments met the standards of umpiring. 

In FED ball, unlike NCAA and OBR, he does not have to go to his partner on a check swing; it is optional. Yet, despite his best efforts, an ugly incident occurred that ended up consuming large amounts of administrators' time during the following days. Suffice it to say that those administrators would have preferred doing something else.

Let's back up from baseball for a minute. We umpires are too close to the profession to criticize ourselves in the previous scenario. Therefore, we shall look at something totally different and evaluate that situation and then make an analogy to our profession.

Continued...