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"Suppose the coach was berating your son or instructing your son to perform a malicious act upon another player."
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How I would react to something if I were a parent is far different than as a paid official.
This year I will be working two separate players that are sons of people I work with . . . that being said I would never consider placing my values on any coach/player relationship. It would be, in my opinion, pretentious and an unreasonable intervention in a relationship that is, by definition, none of my "freakin'" business.
Let me give you another apple to apple example:
Let's say the head coach of the Milleville High School "Flying Mint Farmers" walks down to the end of the dugout, slips behind the end wall and lights up a big Cubana.
I would call time and go to him and say: "Skip ya need to get rid of that and get back into the dugout."
He has two choices:
1) Do what I said and stay in the game or,
2) Be ejected for not following my clearly defined order.
I would not involve myself unless it was clearly defined that I had the responsibility, by rule, to do something.
Without trying to morph this thread farther: Profanity from coach to player can be handled. But something as simple as the OP or a coach telling a player something such as "steam roll the catcher" is far from my duty to handle
DURING the game.
Respectfully,