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Originally Posted by EsqUmp
Stop telling defensive players how to play a ball and stop telling offensive players how far to run. Get your ass out there and check on the ball. That's your job. Why not do your own job instead of telling others how to do their own? This isn't game "management." It's game MISmanagement.
To anyone who says, "I don't tell the defense what to do, I just tell the offensive to keep running," why would you advise one side and not the other? Illogical. Don't tell either side.
If a coach asks, I simply say, "You can coach your players how you see fit. We will make a ruling in accordance with the rule book and ground rules." DONE!
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Even in professional baseball, if the ball gets into the Ivy and becomes unplayable the fielder will signal to the umpire. Then the umpire will check and if they are right kill the play. If the player fishes it out of the ivy, everyone will assume it wasn't lodged. And you surely don't mean to say they do that because they are lazy?
Is your problem with the fact that the umpire is explaining how to do it, or with the fact that this is how it is to be done?