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Re: Re: The Rest of the Story
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1st - you COULD be right. Nothing suprises me any more. HOWEVER: I also think you may be so far/ so long removed from the "lower" youth-ball trenches that you are looking to read in something that ain't necessarily there. She's pi$$y about the umpiring; OK, that's a red flag: but the "rest of the story" on the coach's indiclicker is right there in plain sight: A "host" BOARD MEMBER [not one of the game umpires] took it upon him/herself to tell a visiting coach to do something, on pain of ejection. Why would one need to believe that there is more to the story than that, or particularly that the visiting coach was somehow an instigator/ co-participant in such foolishness? "Board Members" are a common, unrelieved pain in the posterior, when it comes to thinking that their administrative position entitles them to be heard about what is happening as the game is played. It would also not suprise me to discover that the home-boys called in the Board member for this precise interference upon failing to obtain satisfaction from the game umpires. I once had a "Board Member" [actually he was the Division Commissioner] walk onto my field from the concession stand [I later discovered that he had been sent for by a coach] to tell me I was incorrectly allowing a starting pitcher to return to the mound. [FWIW: team A had only 9 players; starting F1 switched w/ F7 at the beginning of an inning (no visits); then, 2 innings later switched back. Perfectly legal under the published rules. The fight was over whether there had been a "substitution" for the starter. CB= Kid was never off the field: no sub. Wasn't removed from the mound by rule-req's: he can come back/ switch x1 per inning, by rule.] This was NOT a tournament w/ "resolve it on the field" protest rules: regular season U10 game. I could not get this guy to understand, nor could I get him to leave voluntarily w/o me buying his [incorrect] ruling: so I ejected him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And, the "rest of the story" in my case: I still [occasionally] do ball for this league; and am on good and cordial terms with the fellow I ejected. |
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