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Originally Posted by tankmjg24
One of our duties as an umpire is to enforce the rules. These rules in my situation contain the fact that the coaches are supposed to remain within their dugout unless they are base coaches. So by not enforcing this rule are we not doing our job? Sure the coaches may disagree with it, however it is still a rule. Coaches are not going to agree with every rule and the solution to this is not to just allow the coaches to do as they please. I believe that we cannot choose which rules to enforce and which rules to not. There are plenty of rules that I disagree with, however they are rules so I am going to enforce them.
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Wow...
This is not Major League ball. This is a small time local youth league who has indicated how they want the rules enforced. Either do it their way or don't work their games. It's really that simple.
You remind me of the young ROTC cadet (Kevin Bacon, IRC) in "Animal House" ridiculously standing his ground at the parade and being run over by hundreds of participants.
BTW, how often do you measure the height of the mound to make sure it meets he rule?