[MSPChris]

I will agree that calling the police might be an overreaction, but I gotta tell you there are plenty of cases where calling the cops is warranted.

Most of my games are for teenage kids. Some coach that decides he's going to put his hands on me during the course of a game (in anger) has no business dealing with kids, period.

Sometimes the league might do something sometimes they won't -- the truth is a lot of the time it depends on who the adult is and what the situation was. I've read plenty of threads where umpires get blackballed because the coach is a prick, but he's a well-placed prick.

The police don't care who the adult is, or what the situation is. What matters to the police is that Adult A assaulted Adult B.

It's too bad but sometimes calling the police is going to be the only way that you the umpire cna make sure the situation goes (as Kevin said) "the way it's supposed to go."