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Steve,
I appreciate your concern about my reputation, but I've never went to that length, or even advocated the ejection in my post.
You'll note I said "replaced".
I have had young F1s with such a case of nerves that they were lost. Reminders to F2 as F1 was looking in from behind the rubber for a signal to wait for F1 to step up have, in all my expirence, solved this problem.
This past weekend, filing in for an umpire that called in sick for a 12 & u game, I warned a pitcher twice about a techinical balk he was commiting in the set position. after the end of the 1st inning I went to his manager and informed him about the problem, and asked him to keep it from occuring again. He thanks me and in the 2nd inning F6 had become F1,and F1 was now F6. Problem solved. F1 has been "replaced" without ejection. Manager happy, I'm happy, opposing 1st base coach (who also recognized balk and my talk with original F1 while kicking dirt off pitcher's plate happy) and my reputation is intact.
Roger Greene
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