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Originally Posted by mbcrowder
Are you guys seriously saying you'd eject, or in some other way try to put a coach "in his place" for the mere act of hollering, "That's a balk!" Really? Sounds to me like the OP handled this the way most umpires would handle it, self included. "Blue, you suck - that's a balk!!!!" Completely different situation. But just "That's a balk!!" said twice is not grounds to get your panties in a wad.
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I'd probably address it in some way, but nothing that involves raising my blood pressure. We can't have a coach yelling out "that's a balk" all game, but unless it's really persistent or inflammatory, I can deal with it.
We had a LHP who had a *great* move yesterday and I had to talk to a first base coach between innings who didn't think so much of it (he and the runner were the only ones picked off twice, though). I could've told him to send the head coach out, that I don't talk to assistants, but what good does that do? Short chat, we agreed to disagree, but at least he knew why I didn't call a balk. And life went on.