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By the way I just dont have little league expierence. I have done high school and college before but I got out of it because of the politics...I will give you an example of what I was dealing with at the time...I had this big Triple A school rival game my first year umpiring high school...I got to be in that postition so quick because I was good at what I did..But anyways the situation was I had pitcher that was chewing tobacco...I learned that he was chewing tobacco from the other teams coach that came up to me in the middle of the inning..He asked me if I would check the pitcher for tobacco in his mouth..So I told the pitcher to come here and open his mouth and what do you know he was chewing it..So I ended up tossing the pitcher who was of course the star player on the team..He ended up getting suspended for a couple of games and got a huge fine from the board of ed...
Well the moral of the story is that when I got home that night the umpire that was in charge of all the umpires called me and told me I should have handled the situation differently..He said I should of just want up to the pitcher and seen what he was chewing and told him to spit it out and tell the other coach he was just chewing beef jerky...Well I thought about it and I got pissed so I quit umpiring in the higher levels...I beleive if you cant follow the rules then you dont need to be out on that field playing...That is why they hire us to adminstrate the rules and I just thought I was doing my job out there...
The real kicker to this story is that the next summer I was reading the newspaper and I was reading about this same player playing for a summer league team..And his coach was the man in charge of all the umpires..I was furious...
It is also why I kept on umpiring at the Little League level..I like what I do and I have fun doing it...I dont have bosses or anything..I just goto the field and do my job..If they dont like me then they dont call me back...I havent had many problems though..There has been a few problems with those rule questions from last year..But they were house rules that were made up...And I knew what was in the rule book by the way..I was just making sure I was reading it right..Im trying to help fix this little league in the same sense....
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