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We are not talking about a coach assisting, we are talking about a coach preventing.
According to your dead ball logic, if a batter hits a home run and collapses at the plate, his coach can drag him around the bases. Yep, that's the spirit of the game I remember learning in umpire school.
We aren't talking about a coach helping a kid retouch a missed base or even the plate, we are discussing a coach physically preventing one of his athletes from passing a runner. This is not a nothing. He has halted the continuation of play, albeit a dead ball, but we make many things happen during dead ball situations. This one is not tolerable.
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