[tankmjg24]

This is rather long so I apologize but I wanted to paint the entire picture.

14U OBR rules. Game is between two teams from neighboring towns that have bad blood between each other. I am located outside of their area so a friend of mine who assigns for the league asked me to come officiate the game so "home team" umpires could not be claimed. Another experienced outside umpire was supposed to do the game with me, but ended up having to drop out. This left me doing the game with a rookie that was rather rough around the edges. Prior to taking the field I have a rather extensive pre-game with my partner to make sure everyone is on the same page. I gave him a lot of information but he kept shaking his head that he understood. Upon entering the field I have my routine plate meeting and the game begins.

Home team is in the field and as the game is getting ready to begin all of the home coaches are leaning on the fence outside the dugout. I push them back in and they comply and the game begins.

Away team is in the field now and two of their coaches are sitting outside the dugout on buckets. I push them back in and they become agitated yelling down at me that they have to be able to call pitches and that they can't do that from the dugout. I am not going to have a screaming match from 90ft away so I call timeout and walk down to the manager of the team to talk to him. As I am doing so the assistant coach intercepts me and tells me that it is bullsh*t that I am not going to let them sit outside the dugout. I tell him that I am only going to talk to the manager and that I do not want to hear the profanity again and gave him a warning. Upon reaching the manager I tell him that we are not going to sit outside in live ball territory and that their is no debating it. At this point I also tell him what his assistant did and notified him that was a team warning to them.

In between innings my partner comes down and notifies me that most of the other umpires allow the coaches outside the dugout so that they can see better and be able to give instructions to their team. I quickly explain to him my reasoning for not allowing them out and he says he never thought of that and says ok. (My reasons were there are 3 coaches all standing outside that could not stand still. The fields did not have a lot of foul territory and they were just in the way. There was no reason why they could not be in the dugout, plus the leagues rules state they are supposed to be)

So essentially every player on the away team was wearing some type of jewelry. Some were wearing rope necklaces while others were wearing actual chains. After telling about the 5th player to take his jewelry off I turned to the manager and told him to make sure all his players had their jewelry off. He turns to his dugout and tells them to take all of their jewelry off as the jewelry police was there. This agitated me but I ignored it. I had to tell one of the home team players to remove his jewelry and before I could even say anything the manager turns to his dugout and tells them to take all of their jewelry off if they are wearing any.

In general the home team is being cooperative and the away team is causing all the problems. This pretty much went right in line with what my friend told me was going to happen.

So here is where the fun begins I guess. R1 and the hitter hits the ball between second and first into right field. R1 was somewhat stealing so he tries for third on the hit. I rotate down to third for the call and notify my partner that I have third. R1 and the ball arrive about the same time and F5 mishandles the ball and it goes off to the side. R1 jumps up and starts to head home but sees the ball did not get that far away and goes back into third standing up as F5 applied a tag. I signal an out and the crowd starts to yell that two calls were made. My partner had came over and he signaled him safe. The manager is agitated and I push him back to the box as I head over to my partner. Upon reaching him I tell him that I had third as I mentioned and that his responsibilities were with the trail runner. He at this point admits he did not understand any of the pregame but did not want to look dumb. He thought the runner's foot and the tag were at the same time. I go with my call and the manager wants an explanation. He is arguing that I stole the base umpire's call and that the play was not even close. I tell him that the call is an out and that we are not going to discuss it and return to the plate area.

Home team is batting now with R1 and R2. Batter hits the ball between shortstop and third to the left fielder. R2 goes to round third to head home to try and score but F5 is straddling the bag and completely denying access. R2 kind of stutter steps and hits third and continues home. I signal obstruction and the throw comes in. R2 is tagged in what would have been an out at the plate. R1 was trying for 3rd and the BR is heading to second. F2 throws to F5 to try and get the advancing R1 and the throw is late. BR advances to second. I know I should have killed action as soon as the runner was tagged at the plate but everything happened fast. I call time at this point and enforce the obstruction. The assistant coach opens up the gate and yells out what the heck do we have now. The manager has also came out. At this point I tell them to return to the dugout and I do not want to see them out of the dugout again unless they have time.

Home team is hitting with R1, R2, and R3. Batter hits the ball to F6 and he bobbles the ball as he is trying to throw home. He decides to try and get the advancing R2 and throws to F5. F5 is off the bag and a foot race begins. Partner signals safe and the groans from the dugout begin but nothing more occurs. Inning ends later and I see the manager and assistant coach heading out to my partner who is in right field. Their dugout is the third base side so I knew they were headed to him. I walk out and catch from the assistant coach that his call was wrong and third and that it should have been my call to begin with. I intercept and tell the manager that we are only going to talk to him and that I wanted to assistant to return to the dugout. At this point the assistant tells me he is not leaving and that all of our calls for the day have been bad, my strike zone was one sided, and that we sucked. I dump him at this point and tell him to get off the field. The manager who is surprisingly calm wants to know why I did not make the call at third. Trying to calm the situation I briefly explain a rotation and he just kind of shakes his head and says ok and walks back to the dugout and the game continues.

I saw the assistant that I ejected walking toward the parking lot so I just assumed that he was leaving. Away team hits in their half and 3 outs occur. Home team begins to hit and I notice that the pitcher is looking like down the third base line. I do not really pay attention but I look at one point and see the coach I ejected sitting in a chair outside the fence down the line. He was signaling pitches to his pitcher. I call time immediately and bring the manager over and tell him that his assistant was ejected and had to leave the property and the game would continue once he did so. The manager goes to talk to him and the coach will not leave. It is far enough away that I cannot tell what words are exchanged but I see the manager come walking back and the coach still sitting in his chair. The manager looks at me and says I can not get him to leave lets just play. At this point I get the field director to call the police to remove the coach. The complex was rather large and an officer was actually present just at another field so it was rather quick that he showed up. He was able to get the coach to leave and asked me if everything was ok to which I reply yes. The game now continues and eventually ends with the away team winning by 3.

So hopefully everyone followed this and that it was not too long. My is was there anything I should have done differently? In my opinion an ejection probably should have come earlier but I was trying to keep peace. So what is everyone's thoughts?