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Originally posted by SC_Cindy
I'd like to thank you all for helpful comments. To bring you up to date, the head of our league did talk with the umpire. He was unwilling to discuss his call. The league director happens to be head of the umpire association. Talk about conflict of interest...lol. He states it's entirely up to the PU to decide whether it's ejection or out or intentional or train wreak. It's a lost cause and I guess it's time to move on. Anyway, the good news is Holden went out tonight and threw a great game and gave us all a great laugh. I told him all day if he hit an over the fence homerun, I wanted him to slide into homeplate. Well, he just the missed the over the fence homerun, but he went 2 for 2 and slide in both times unnessarily. I was rather proud of the way he took all the "ribbing" tonight. Thanks y'all!
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I think that Cindy is teaching the wrong lesson by encouraging an unneeded slide. Players should slide (or avoid contact) when a play is being made on them. Your son made a mistake in an earlier game. You could have commented at the time that the umpire's judgment may have been incorrect in ruling the contact "malicious" BUT Holden made a fundamental mistake. A player should slide when in doubt. If the same umpire were officiating the game where slides were made when NO play was being made on the runner would not help Holden's cause. Jim/NYC