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Originally Posted by kylejt
Wait! Is this the same Oz who is thumping me for giving a manager a chance to pull a player for accidentally flinging a bat, instead of ejecting him?
Honestly, you high school umpires.......................  |
Yes it is!
That is FED, your situation was OBR where there is very little that can be done other than to eject (check the OBR Rules sometime and you will see what I mean). The FED makes statements of restricting or ejecting but the State Board wants us to try and use those only as the situation cannot be resolved any other way. Of course, that is here in CT - in Oregon where Tim is, the State Board may be just the opposite. As a FED umpire, you are bound to the National FED
and your State's interpretation of the rules. In OBR, there is no local interpretation - if the rules says eject, you eject.