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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
Racial discrimination? Next you'll tell me that Little League is fostering a hostile environment by not providing them with bilingual umpires. Or rulebooks in Spanish.
When the coach communicates with the umpire or makes substitutions, do we need to provide an interpreter? In the United States?
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You have cleverly changed the subject and introduced a red herring. The discussion involved on field communications between members of the same team. Umpire to coach communications are a separate issue. Likewise, league administration to team communications are a separate issue. (You raised that one with bilingual rulebooks.)
Stick to the subject. Where in the rules does the umpire gain the right to eavesdrop on the communications between coach and player or player and player? Be specific. Does this right to eavesdrop contribute in a meaningful way to game administration?
Those are the questions that will be asked in a court of law? I don't think that preventing ball balls will be an answer on which the judge will look favorably.
The answers, by the way, are no and no. The counsel would use the example of American umpires in Japanese leagues as proof . The umpires speak almost no Japanese and the Japanese speak almost no English, yet the games are successfully umpired.