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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
Sounds like this coach is just "one of those." His complaints have NOTHING to do with rules, only a gripe about "consistency." It's an easy insult to throw at an umpire, and it's almost indefensible. Kind of like getting called a racist - it's hard to "prove the negative" and show that you're NOT that way.
And for the record, the safety base is an appeal play. It's the defense that has to ask for the call to be made, and I RARELY see it in a rec league. Maybe once a year do I actually get asked, if that.
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NCASAUmp:
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head. I checked the league standings and saw this coach's team went 0-10, partly from being in a division with the best area travel teams, and partly because this guy subscribes to the "If you can't beat em, confuse the heck out of em" philosophy. He actually whined about being in a division that he wasn't competitive in, but it made me wonder if he even bothered to look at the league information in his application packet or attend the mandatory coach's meeting.
After re-reading the posts today, I could concede that
maybe if a fan politely posed rule question, I might be inclined to answer (since even now, I personally do try to educate people who don't know a rule or want to know), but if I had the feeling things were going to get ugly fast, I'd be skedaddling out of there ASAP.