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Originally Posted by jwwashburn
Well, I KNOW(for instance) that LL requires a one game suspension after any ejection. If I eject a kid on the last game Thursday night and see him in uniform and on the line up card for the first game on Friday morning, then I would be helping him and his coach break the rules if I did nothing and let him play.
I would handle it this way: I arrive at the field with my partner(s) I see #17 in uniform. I tell the tournament director BEFORE the meeting at home plate and have HIM deal with it now so that it is not my problem later.
Joe
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Even then, keep your nose out of it.
Let me say it this way, perhaps...
Field one, Thursday night, you're working and you toss player #17.
Field two, Thursday night, Billy Bob's working and tosses player #18 on that field.
Next day - you have the Friday morning game with the same team as Thursday night. I have the Friday morning game with the team Billy Bob ejected a guy on.
Both managers are dishonest and try to play their ejected players, and TD doesn't catch it. You catch yours and help the manager avoid cheating. I, of course, don't catch mine, as I was not there Thursday night. My manager cheats, the game is protested, and my manager loses for cheating, as he should.
You've just saved a dishonest coach from a well-deserved forfeit, where mine got what he deserved. Is your method better or worse?
Or the converse - in both sitches, after Thursday's games, the player was legally reinstated for whatever reason W'Port or the TD decides is legit. But the same TD is not there in the morning, and you either don't let your kid play or cause a huge unnecessary ruckus because of something you THINK you know.
This is not like a sitch in LL where we try to keep an ineligible pitcher from inadvertently being sent to the mound - this is a coach trying to cheat plain and simple. Our job as umpires is to officiate the game. I reiterate - it is NOT to handle administrative duties like player eligibility.