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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 10:51am
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Preventative officiating, or not?

HS State tournament game this last Saturday, loser goes home. I am PU

Two evenly matched teams, close ball game throughout.

Home team DP (#10) comes to bat and get a base hit. Coach substitutes a faster runner (#5) for the DP. The half inning ends a couple of batters later with no runners scoring. Coach says nothing to me about re-entering #10.

Two innings later, the home team DP spot is due up and #10 steps into the box. Still nothing has been said about re-entering #10. R1 is on first, #10 gets a single that advances R1 to third. Game is tied at this point and the home team coach approaches me and asks if he has used his offensive conference in the inning, I tell him that he has not. He wants time to talk to his batter and runners - I grant time.

After speaking to his players, he approaches me with his line up in hand, so I pull mine lineup holder out anticipating a lineup change. When he gets to me, he is looking at his lineup with a confused look on his face, I ask him if he wants to make a change, no answer. I then ask him if wants to re-enter #10, he says - Yes, that's what I want to do! I announce the re-entry.

My question - should I have mentioned that to him at all or just left it alone until the visitors said something?
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 10:58am
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My opinion; you handled it perfectly. You didn't prompt him until it was clear what he wanted, but didn't know how or if he should say it.
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 11:02am
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I think the coach was probably going there already, just based off the fact that he approached you and didn't quite know exactly what he should say. I don't know NFHS, but ASA allows this with no penalty (so long as the player may re-enter) if the offended team doesn't discover it first.

You straddled the line a little bit there, but sometimes for the sake of keeping the game moving along (and avoiding a long-winded explanation from the coach as to why he's so confused), you can push the line a tad.
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 11:04am
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Unless there is something physical that makes one or the other of these players stand out, this is not something I would have noticed anyway.

ASA and NFHS handle this situation differently, and with different penalties. ASA allows the coach to "late announce" the re-entry, so long as it happens before the opposing coach protests. NFHS has no such allowance for the coach to "late announce", but OTOH, the NFHS penalty for the first occurance is much less severe than ASA's penalty.

Since NFHS does not allow for the late reporting of the re-entry, I think you should have also warned the coach/team about the unreported sub.
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 12:13pm
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It's funny how differently coaches look at this compared to umpires. I was reading this to a coach I know, and the coach stated the we should not say anything, and allow the defense to appeal. NFHS, the penalty for the first un-reported sub is just a warning. If we never give the warning, the coach, can in actuality, have three occurances of an un-reported sub before the coach and sub are restricted. So, what my coaching friend is saying is that we need to get the first warning on the books, so if the coach does it again, intentionally or not, then there are consequences for their either ignorant or deliberate violation of the rules.

I understand that position, however, I would still ask the coach if he wanted to re-enter #10.
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 12:41pm
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I think this was perfectly handled, as others have said. You saw that he wanted to make the change, you allowed him the opportunity, then when you saw he didn't know how to admit that he forgot to re-enter the starter, you prompted him with what he needed. By doing it the way you did, you averted a clusterf*k later on with a potential unreported sub, and allowed the coach and the player to keep playing.
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Old Mon May 05, 2008, 12:58pm
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I agree, you handled the situation well.

It's funny sometimes how an umpire will know what the coach means to do better than the coach.

If a substitution is obviously situational and I have a sense there will be a re-entry or follow-up change, I will make a concerted effort to make eye contact with the coach at the end of the half-inning. I don't say anything, but some of these coaches have so much going on in there (leave it alone ), sometimes just seeing you look at them will make that light bulb come on. If there is no effort to make a change, I let it go and move on with the game.
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 01:00pm
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yes I think you did exactly what you should have... The manuals and evaluators will all tell you that you should never let a coach do something illegal with the line up... unfourtunately the coach did something wrong/illegal with the line up without you ... in this case you cannot offer information ... Which is exactly why you did this correctly....
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 02:38pm
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yes I think you did exactly what you should have... The manuals and evaluators will all tell you that you should never let a coach do something illegal with the line up... unfourtunately the coach did something wrong/illegal with the line up without you ... in this case you cannot offer information ... Which is exactly why you did this correctly....
kcg,

You may want to make an effort to cite the post or person to which you are responding.
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 06:53pm
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How would you like me to do that .... MLA,APA,Turabian? But after all, thats what I get for assuming that people would understand that I was responding to was the original poster. I will make an effort to do so more often just for you IRISHMAFIA.
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 08:25pm
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How would you like me to do that .... MLA,APA,Turabian? But after all, thats what I get for assuming that people would understand that I was responding to was the original poster. I will make an effort to do so more often just for you IRISHMAFIA.
It's the little "quote" button inside the bottom-right of the posting you're responding to.
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 09:02pm
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It's the little "quote" button inside the bottom-right of the posting you're responding to.
you mean like this???????????

I like the participation in the sarcasim... after all if I dish it I should be able to take it right?
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Old Thu May 08, 2008, 11:00pm
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But after all, thats what I get for assuming that people would understand that I was responding to was the original poster. I will make an effort to do so more often just for you IRISHMAFIA.
Well, you have the ASSume part of internet etiquette down. Of course, if you bothered reading the thread, you would understand, maybe, that there are often more than one variations/scenarios coming off the OP.

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I like the participation in the sarcasim... after all if I dish it I should be able to take it right?
Hell, you haven't even scratched the surface.
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