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Old Wed Mar 19, 2008, 08:33pm
wadeintothem wadeintothem is offline
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Originally Posted by Steve M
Baseball is a different culture.
It is a different culture, unfortunately too many softball umpires will tolerate stuff a baseball umpire would never tolerate. We warn, we bench, talk into our line up cards, we go on and on "to keep them in the game", as if that is the most important thing. THEN, some do a "top secret" ejection, where no one even knows and no lesson was learned by anyone. A coach is about as necessary to the game as the hot dog vendor. No umpire needs to tolerate antics from them. And softball coaches could use a little cracking down.
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