If you're tossing a coach for saying you mis-interpreted a rule you don't belong on the field. ANY field. That's one of the coaches rights in all sports.
In baseball it's called a protest. You know a protest. It's when the manager walks out onto the field and tells you that you don't know the rules, and you have to go to the scorebook and write down that the manaher says I don't know the rules, and then they have a committee that decides if you do or don't know the rules.
When I teach umpires I tell them to accept ANY protest, for whatever reason. If you're right it doesn't mean anything. If you're wrong it should be changed.
When I give rules clinics to caches I tell them, that if they feel they are right and the umps are wrong, to make the protest. If they find later that they were wrong they apologize and tell the ump to forget it. If the ump was wrong the situation needs to be changed and the ump needs to know what mistakes he is making.
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Jim Schroeder
Read Rule 2, Read Rule 2, Read Rule 2!
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