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Agreed. It is impossible to come out of the crowd and instruct the umpires... unless the umpires know you and are willing to accept your instruction. They loose face, just like you or I would if we listened to a stranger in the crowd.
I once tried to help a couple of youth umpires (probably 14 years old) by telling them that they needed to show balls on the left hand and strikes on the right. I did this between innings with no one else within earshot.They wanted to argue.
All I could do was laugh and leave.... You know, it didn't bother the 8 and 9 year old players one iota that they were doing it wrong. Your situation likely didn't bother the girls during their game either.
Obviously to change the rules in the middle of the game, even to change them to the correct ruling (after having ruled it wrong several times), would be an egregious error... leading to perceived impropriety. "You let them do it but you didn't let us do it."
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