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Originally posted by ChrisSportsFan
Sooo, you're saying that bad sportsmanship is kind-of a tradition for them?

Yeah, kinda. I went over to watch our local team in the 8-year-old (pitching machine) tournament and ran into our district commissioner, who had given me the games at the 12U state. Turns out I had dumped that same guy two years ago in a 13-year-old district tournament; I had kinda thought it was the same guy but I wasn't sure. So in about 6-7 years of umpiring, I've ejected a coach a grand total of three times -- and he was two of them.

But the district commissioner is also a basketball referee -- the same one that dumped their star player in the district tournament back in February. The next week's newspaper said something along the lines of, "How can you have such low-caliber officials for a tournament game?" And then they wanted to blame it on the other team's fans. Then at the state tournament three weeks later, they had to eject the same kid and about two more, plus their fans nearly started a riot in the stands -- in the state championship game.