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Varsity HS game, big rivalry between the 2 teams, student fans of home team start yelling increasingly obnoxious things to visiting defense, then at visiting teams parents. Said parents complaining, and slightly yelling back. Things are starting to boil over, so between innings, Pu partner and I talk to home coach, describe the 3 main student troublemakers, ask him to settle things down--that we werent going to stand for this kind of fan display-- he sends a parent to sit in the same student area--calms things down.
2 innings later, it starts up again(where was parent??). We explain to home coach that unless he had those 3 leave the field/park immediately, that the game was delayed, maybe a "possible" forfeit- coach was very angry at us, as his was a playoff level team vs a losing record team, but those 3 were soon gone, home team wins, and parents from both teams thank us as we head to cars.
Normally I ignore "ump" comments, but in this case....
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