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Originally posted by Atl Blue
LDUB:
Yes, I read it, but you are missing my point entirely. Call it game management, but even if I could see an eye chart being held up by the PU, if the 1B coach is between the box and the base line, I'm TELLING him, "Coach, you blocking my view, back up a step."
They never complain when you tell them you are being blocked. But if you were to say, "Coach, you can't be out there stealing signs" or "Coach, you have to stay in the box", you have just turned this into a pi$$ing contest.
Avoid all that. TELL him he's blocking your view. I don't care if he is really blocking it or not, he is somewhere where he really isn't supposed to be, and he is gaining an advantage from it. If he can still steal the signs from the box, good for him. But the easiest way of keeping him from taking advantage (which is how this post started in the first place) is to push him back by SAYING, "Coach, you're blocking ny view. I need to be able to see the batter and the catcher."
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You say this is preventative, but what exactly are you preventing. You are preventing the coach from stealing the signs. Is that exactly what you want to do?
If I was managing a team, and you told my coach to get back in the box because he was stealing signs, I would not say anything. I would sit there and wait. But the second that the coach from the other team steps out of the box to talk to R1, and you don't tell him to get in the box, them I am goning to call time and come out to argue with you. Here is what the conversation would go like.
(ME) So you allow this guy to get out of the box, but you tell my coach to get back in the box when he leaves it, why is that?
(YOU) Well that's simple, it is because your coach was stealing signs, and I don't want him to be able to do that.
You are digging yourself a hole by telling my coach to get in the box.