He did what?

I've been playing softball for over 15 years now and I've seen some weird shit go down. I've seen an umpire knocked out cold by a practice ball that hit him on top of the head. I've seen another umpire run to first base and try to call the game from there because there was a bumblebee by home plate. I've seen second basemen flipped in the air on hard take out slides. I've seen dislocated and broken fingers, I've seen broken wrists. I've seen players so drunk that they are puking behind the dugout between innings. I've seen calls blown when the runner was clearly safe/out by three or more steps. I've seen amazing diving catches and simple pop flies miss the glove and hit people in the face.

But today took the cake.

Our umpire was not very good. I and several other people thought that he had blown an easy call at first base. Plus, he has the habbit of calling time out (dead ball) when the play is still going. We were rallying against a good team and throw was made from center field to the second baseman. She DROPPED THE BALL yet the umpire calls time out. I slightly blew my top and told him it was a bullshit call. That the play was still alive. He responded by asking (I thought challengingly) how many runs we had scored that inning. I told him, "It doesn't matter."

The umpire stopped the game. Told me to shut up if I didn't want my team to forfeit and talked to my captain. I walked out of the dugout and away from the field to let things simmer down. Two plays later one of our players rips a line drive right down the third base line. Our runner at third had to duck as the ball would have taken her head off. The ball hooks clearly foul but the umpire calls it fair. We scored three more runs on the hit and the other team started complaining.

The umpire actually claims that because the ball passed by third base, in the air, in fair territory, that it is a fair ball despite landing foul. He's just flat out wrong. And the opposing team's left field told him so. He said, "It doesn't matter [where the ball passed the bag]".

See where this is going?

The umpire immeidately declares a forfeit by the other team and tells them to leave the field. There was a moment of shocked disbelief but the team starts to leave the field. The left fielder, as he is leaving the field with the rest of his team, says to the umpire, "You really suck!"

AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS BIZARRE!

The umpire (a late 50ish, short, overweight man who sits on the bench between innings to save his breath and is prone to saying, "God Bless" instead of "Good bye") ran waddled at the the outfielder and punched weakly flailed at his shoulder. The umpire actually attacked him. It was un-fucking-believable and everyone just stood around with mouths agape. Even the opposing outfielder, who was in no way injurred, couldn't believe what happened. The umpire finally realized he had severely fucked up started claiming to everyone on both teams that he felt threatened and under attack by the guy.

PREPOSTEROUS! The guy called a bad game, was told so and then he completely lost his cool.