Eject early and often?

[akalsey]

Unless it's for a charitable cause you shouldn't work for free.

In my area the youth leagues are all non-profits. The kids are there learning baseball instead of sitting on the couch -- or worse. So volunteer my time (and money since I own all pro-level gear) to make sure that these kids get a good game. I view the youth leagues as a charity. It never even occured to me that they would be anything but a charitable cause.

"Hey, you can't do that!" probably doesn't warrant an ejection on the 2nd coach, even if that was yet another straw on this guy's back.

You HTBT. The comment was from across the diamond, and was crowing about it. He was pointing out to the whole field that he'd just pulled one over on me. The tone and manner of the comment was an obvious attempt to show up the umpire. Although you're right, had it not been for his antics the whole game up to that point, I probably wouldn't have ejected for it.