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[QUOTE=bkbjones].
SP Coed VERY Rec tournament. ASA rules. QUOTE]
WOW!!
Don't know if there was anyone on "up the chain", but this is a CLEAR violation of rule 10-2. You had a valid protest! (would probably be a first---Umpire filing a protest!) I imagine though the TD would have been the "protest commitee" but if this was a REC tournie, then he surely has a superior. I would at least make my point known.
Perhaps a small claims suit for breach of contract? A lot of trouble I know, but it would also be trouble for the TD, and rec dep't, and you DO have the rules on your side.
As Mr. Darling told Andy (Griffith) about Ernest T. Bass once, " We thought about killin' him, just hated to go that far!" Not advocating here, but it is a thought!
I have actually been around a similar situation where a TD forced a umpire to allow re-entry to an ejected coach during the same game. The Umpire chose to not "rock the boat" as he put it later. The next tournie we called for this TD all the umpires agreed that if that was to happen again, we would all show our support, and walk! I can say I would, and am sure others would, but I doubt all would.
fitump56 may be correct about the dream world, and the "pay to play" thing, but I ain't gonna bow my head and say "Yassir". I'll take the second option, and call the Darling's!
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