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Old Fri Apr 18, 2008, 09:53pm
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Ozzy, what you would expect him to do...

I tried to keep him in, but it just wouldn't stop. At first, the coach yelled at his kid, when informed of the ejection, he wouldn't stop saying "how about a warning, you've got to be kidding". He approached me and I told him it was a safety concern in my judgment. He kept trying to reason and get the kid "unejected."

Finally I just heard enough of this subdued talk, probably even entertained him too much (between 45 seconds and a minute), and told the coach, "Coach, the player is disqualified. In my judgment he endangered the safety of all participants. Now lets get back to baseball." I gave him so much time because it was the 2nd game I had with him and had no previous problems. Tried to give him the benefit of the doubt I guess.

I turned and walked away... with an open ear. I heard a loud "BULL****", and turned back around. Coach had turned back to his dugout and his hat was off about 10 feet away. No doubt the words came from him.

Well heck, I tried to keep him in the game...

Of course TD didn't back either of the ejections up with a game suspension... pretty typical but there's nothing I can do about it and no other games that I can do with my school schedule.

Partner (25 years exp) said I had no choice in either of them... and the TD was full of ****. He doesn't do USSSA much for this reason, only when his HS schedule tapers off.

Next day I get to the field, same TD, and he tells me, "try not to eject anyone today."

My reply: "I don't eject people, they eject themselves."

Freaking TDs... a real struggle around here.
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