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Originally posted by His High Holiness
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Originally posted by twest
If Peter wants to hear the rest of the story, he's going to be reading for a long time. The moral of the story is, I just want to know if it's actually legal or not. Alot of the messages posted were missing the whole point of my post.
It was a jack### board member who came over from the concession stand area to tell our coach (our kids were on defense) to put the clicker away or he would be ejected.
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Your anger and hostility to the "jacka$$" is telling. I am still betting that we do not have the real story. The version that you have related is idiotic on its face. In the absence of the instigating circumstances, no one comes over from a concession stand to a dugout to tell someone to put an indicator away.
There is a pi$$ing contest here that you have not told us about. I would bet money that your husband played as idiotic a role in this contest as the board member that came over and got on a high horse about indicators. Please enlighten us on the instigating role that your husband played to get this farce rolling. I'll bet he was just as much of an idiot as the board member who was up in arms about indicators.
Peter
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Peter:
1st - you COULD be right. Nothing suprises me any more.
HOWEVER: I also think you may be so far/ so long removed from the "lower" youth-ball trenches that you are looking to read in something that ain't necessarily there.
She's pi$$y about the umpiring; OK, that's a red flag: but the "rest of the story" on the coach's indiclicker is right there in plain sight:
A "host" BOARD MEMBER [
not one of the game umpires] took it upon him/herself to tell a visiting coach to do something, on pain of ejection. Why would one need to believe that there is more to the story than that, or particularly that the visiting coach was somehow an instigator/ co-participant in such foolishness?
"Board Members" are a common, unrelieved pain in the posterior, when it comes to thinking that their administrative position entitles them to be heard about what is happening as the game is played. It would also not suprise me to discover that the home-boys called in the Board member for this precise interference upon failing to obtain satisfaction from the game umpires.
I once had a "Board Member" [actually he was the Division Commissioner] walk onto my field from the concession stand [I later discovered that he had been sent for by a coach] to tell me I was incorrectly allowing a starting pitcher to return to the mound.
[FWIW: team A had only 9 players; starting F1 switched w/ F7 at the beginning of an inning (no visits); then, 2 innings later switched back. Perfectly legal under the published rules. The fight was over whether there had been a "substitution" for the starter. CB= Kid was never off the field: no sub. Wasn't removed from the mound by rule-req's: he can come back/ switch x1 per inning, by rule.]
This was NOT a tournament w/ "resolve it on the field" protest rules: regular season
U10 game. I could not get this guy to understand, nor could I get him to leave voluntarily w/o me buying his [incorrect] ruling: so I ejected him.
BTW, this was during the period when I was allowing my "inner Stalin" free rein.
And, the "rest of the story" in my case: I still [occasionally] do ball for this league; and am on good and cordial terms with the fellow I ejected.