[RPatrino]

There is a major difference between higher caliber ball and youth levels. Most (not all) HS varsity and above coach's know how to handle umpires, they know the boundries and most bright ones know what each individual umpires levels of tolerance are in any given situation.

By the same token, because we do the same schools over the years, we know the coach's pretty well, and we know how they will react most of the time. Hot heads are hot heads, they very rarely change. We know who they are and we react accordingly.

In dealings with the veteran coaches, to use a blanket, "i'm not discussing judgement calls with you", is wrong. Bottomline, I treat a varsity HS coach or JC coach a lot differently then I do a lower level youth coach.