I really hate when the umps think that they are part of the event. Does anybody remember Ron Luciano. He was a showboating ump who became an announcer. Yaz hated his showboating and inserting himself as a spectacle. Anyway, in Luciano's book "The Empire Strikes Back" he recounted an interaction with Yaz when Yaz was in a slump. Luciano used to like to talk to the players during the game even when he was umpiring the plate. He's ask them about their families etc. Yaz stepped into the box this one day and turned to Luciano and said: "My wife is fine, my kids are fine, I haven't had any good Polish food lately, and my son Mike is hitting .400. Now shut the f*** up and let me hit.