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Originally Posted by bluezebra
Another umpire making up his own rules. An umpire does not have the authority to eject a spectator. He may request game management to do so, but that's it.
Bob
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Does not have the authority? Yeah we do.
Stupid thing to do? Yeah, probably.
But regarding scorekeepers / announcers, we SURELY have the authority to tell them to do things a certain way or stop entirely ... and even eject them from their position.
And we have. Had a high school guy who thought he was Bob Freaking Costas one day, announcing play-by-play over the loudspeaker. He was told to cool it, and he did. Until a play where the ball got away a few yards on a throw to first, and neither the 3BC or R2 (now on third) noticed it, "AND THE BALL GETS AWAY!!!!" alerted them both and R2 scampered home on a close play.
Buh bye Mr Announcer.
Had nearly the same thing in football 4-5 years back, except it was, "IT'S A REVERSE!!!!!" Tossed him too.