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Originally Posted by tankmjg24
Well the reason I was looking for confirmation was in the review session with the UIC he felt as if I should have gave a team warning first. While backing me on the ejection his response to it was if he was officiating that he would have asked the player what he said and if the player repeated himself or lead on then he would have ejected. If he said nothing then he would have issued a warning and if something happened later he would eject. While not disagreeing with my ejection he felt as if he would have given the player a chance to redeem himself. In my opinion if a player cusses me on a field I am going to eject regardless of the situation though.
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No offense to your UIC, but I believe he is full of it. He is advocating baiting the player into repeating the swearing. By doing so, you would open yourself up to much more scrutiny. Then the coach could rightfully claim that you baited his player into swearing twice. You already heard what he said, you didn't need it repeated. Your opinion was and is correct. This is HS baseball, and the participants are not allowed to vent using swear words. In adult ball, college ball, pro ball, whatever...saying "Bullsh*t" is nothing at all, even if in your direction. The point is that HS children are not adults, and are not to be permitted to speak to adults in such a disrespectful manner. Hopefully, this young stud learned a lesson about talking to his elders.