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Old Fri Apr 18, 2014, 10:04am
Manny A Manny A is offline
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Originally Posted by LIUmp View Post
The two cases you posed are not like the situation where someone will be restricted to the bench. A sweatshirt? Wiping off fingers....You're not restricting here. Same idea with telling the batter to keep one foot in the batter's box. The penalties are insignificant compared to a girl not abiding by the jewelry rule.

Get the coach involved. Specifically because you ASKED him/her to verify that their team is legally and properly equipped and the response was YES. Now, you want to tell them otherwise.
I'm just addressing the general comments that others here allude that umpires are not allowed to talk to players. That's just not true.
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