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Old Wed May 25, 2005, 01:02pm
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Re: I agree.....

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Originally posted by tmp44
This coach was allowed to stay wayyyyy to long. Here's the only technical problem I have with the whole thing. Assuming OBR and no modifications, the coach cannot be "restricted to the dugout" like he can in FED, correct? It's either put up w/ the s&!t or send 'em to the parking lot.
Well....
The older the kids are, the less I recomend this: but under OBR 9.01b you CAN issue a bench arrest, under the aegis of directing the coach to "...do or refrain from doing anything ..." which has an effect on the administration of the rules.

With the younger groups, especially, you may only have ONE league-sanctioned adult in the dugout: EJ him/her, and the game is over for the kids. Bench arrest can have the useful effect(s) of penalising the coaches misbehavior, removing a burr from under your harness, and keeping the kids playing. Plus, almost none of the coaches at the lower levels will even THINK that there might not be a rule "allowing" this; and if they are too stoopid to accept benching as a milder alternative to ejection, and argue that you only have a choice between EJ and nothing: well, accomodate them, and make it an ejection.

"Put up with the s#!t" should never be an option: if the noise has reached the point where you are allowed to do something about it, then it has reached the point where you NEED TO do something about it.

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Oh, yeah: even giving this coach the benefit of a considerable doubt on the original "TIME" yell ["What was it you called Time for, coach? Since it seems to me that you are only interested now in getting the alleged balk that your shout induced?"]; the only thing(s) these umps did "wrong" was let him out on parole after the first bench arrest, and not run him at the first "NO, NO!", thereafter. 'Course, I think I would have been unable to restrain myself from launching him upon hearing "No, I'm trying to get you umps under control".

[Edited by cbfoulds on May 25th, 2005 at 02:11 PM]
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