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In my limited time as an umpire, it has become even more apparent that baseball does not have any official warnings like other sports. There are no yellow cards, no two minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalties, no 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct flags, and no technical fouls.
I have used "The Stare" with good results. The first or second time you hear "chirping" just look over and stare hard at the coach. Usually they get the message.
You could also call time and nip it in the bud the first time it happens and tell the coach that he needs to drop the comments.
Or you could just toss the first person from a team who makes a second comment of any type. That will just about always get the message across.
Your mileage may vary.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. ~Socrates
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