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Originally Posted by lmathews19
I was doing the championship game of a AA(double-A) USSSA world series today. One of the coaches was a real prick and saying crap all game (just smart-a$$ stuff that pisses you off). I had finally heard enough about the strike zone in the 4th inning (they were getting beat 10-0...I guess it was my fault), so I told him that enough and I didn't want to hear any more. He ignored me and I said it again. Then he made a hand gesture by putting his hand on his hear being a smart-a$$ and acting like he wasn't hearing me. I dumped him, the crowd went nuts. It was one of those fields were the dads of lil Johnny can get right behind the backstop and act like they are umpires. They were literally screaming at me (nothing derogatory) calling me "Hollywood" and stupid $hit. I just ignored them...team loses 10-2 after 4 innings...1 hr. 10 min. I take it to the house, while the dads of the losing team came up to me when I was walking out telling me how much I sucked and stuff. I ignored them. Now, I know the professional thing to do is ignore the fans at all costs, but I know many guys who at youth stuff like this will actually acknowledge the fans and dump them just like they were coaches. Did I do the right thing by ignoring them? My thinking is if I acknowledge them, it will just get worse.
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I take great pride and pleasure from completely ignoring the fans. I also take great pride and pleasure in setting a dumb-a$$ coach straight early in the game, and if he doesn't get the clue dump him. I have never had a word to say to a dumb-a$$ fan after the game.
One mistake, you told him you did not want to hear any more, he ignored you and you warned again. There should be no such thing as two warnings, the first is a warning, the second is a dump, otherwise the first warning meant nothing.