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Originally posted by mcrowder
Anytime I hear an official I'm working with brag about his high ejection total, as dumbrumb just did, I try to work as few games with that guy as possible. It's nothing to brag about - as often it's an indication that you let things get away from you far too often.
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To an extent, many ejections is a bad thing. But it depends on what level you are working.
Drumbum said he is calling in a "high school aged league". I would assume that this means that the coaches are just the player's dads. As everyone knows, these coaches have less knowledge of the rules than "school" coaches, and they have far less knowledge of how to conduct oneself on the field.
It is one thing to let the game get out of hand, and you end up having to eject a few people. That is very differenct from a coach coming out to argue with you, and doing something stupid, which they get ejected for.
Last night, I called a Babe Ruth game with HS players, probally similar to drumbum's games. There was R1 with one out. Line drive to F6, who catches, and throws wild to F3 in an attempt to get R1 out on appeal. The wild throw ends up in the dugout. I send R1 to third on the 2 base award, which of course stirs up the defensive dugout.
The manager came out to argue. I stand there, listen, and reply "No, that's not correct. It is a 2 base award." The manager then turns his back to me, starts waving his hands above his head, and begins yelling to the spectators about how everyone knows I am wrong, and such.
Of course the manager was ejected. This was the only time anyone said anything about anything the whole game. It was a single event, in which the manager didn't know the rules, or how to conduct himself on the field, which in turn caused him to be removed from the game.