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"either he was inexperienced or generally a timid guy"
Comments here and on McGriff's BB board suggest that many feel the ump was a wimp for not ejecting the coach, thus preventing the rest of the uglyness.
I disagree. I am neither a wimp in attitude or size (I am more often accused of having the opposite attributes), but I have never ejected a high school coach. I will use every preventative technique available to me to keep them in the game. Generally they are teachers; they are role models; they are part of the educational process; they belong on the field with their students. Of course, if they ever go way too far, then I have a way of letting them know that they are at the end of the rope and if they so much as walk too fast towards me, they are history.
On the other hand, if you want to talk Travel Team or Rec League, then you ought to see all the notches in my belt. They call me "trigger happy," my tolerance level is much less there then in the H.S. game.
WMB
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