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Originally posted by orioles35
To me, the game is about the kids. Especially at age 12.
Tournament semi-final game, team at bat is down by sevearl runs and coming out of the losers bracket, everyone well behaved. Catcher gets signals from dugout and gives them to the pitcher. In doing so, his fingers are near the dirt and can be seen everywhere, including by the third base coach. First the coach started saying "Fastball here", "watch the breaking pitch". Next inning he says, "Got some heat here", or "keep your hands back" for the breaking pitch. I wander over to the other coach and quietly inform him of what's going on (since he didn't seem to be figuring it out himself).
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First of all, there is no rule in
any rule book that deals with sign stealing. It is not the job of the umpire to deal with this. You are interfering with the game here - the opposition figured out the code so what? It has nothing to do with officiating the game! It doesn't matter how old the players are,
don't inject yourself into the game!