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Originally Posted by IN ASA BLUE
.... Our local assoc. has very specific rules on this type of conduct.....
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Do you mean the umpire's association or the local softball association (aka league)?
I can understand a local league putting in fairly strict parent-control rules if they have had a problem in the past, but I can't understand an umpire assoc. doing this on their own.
Even with the local league rules, it has to be a PITA for the umpires to have to deal with.
Without such local rules, unless fans are actually disrupting the GAME, they should be ignored by the umpire.