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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
Okay, I'll play Devil's Advocate here: The coach says, "Why does he have to stop doing that? Show me the rule."
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Coach, FED has a rule against verbal obstruction and there are a number of examples in the case book. Saying "back" in this situation could be interpreted as verbal obstruction by some umpires. Sooner or later you will run into an umpire who thinks it should be called vs. one who thinks it could be called, but my preference is just to put an end to it wo we don't have this grey area.