Another Shining Example of Umpire Restraint in LL

GarthB · #12 (**permalink**) Sat Jul 30, 2005, 09:14am

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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser

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Originally posted by cbfoulds
Yeah, Rich, it's unlawful discrimination.
It could make a lawsuit, but I doubt it: kinda hard to make damages, although an injunction would be a possibility.
The bit about rule books in Spanish [ or Farsi, or Urdu or ...] is a red herring, as is the other guy's bit about "how can I figger out if the action was malicious if I can't understand what they're saying?".

Bottom line: no umpire, anywhere, has any right or authority to demand that participants stick to english on the field. Guys who do this are OOO yahoos at best, and racist bigots at worst. The TD was an idiot not to squelch this when they wenty to him/her.

'Course the Coach is a bigger idiot for claiming that this ruling "cost them the game".

You WERE right though, that the LL angle is pure coincidence: I've had to deal with this same stupidity in my HS/BRBB/Legion association.

Racist bigots? This game WAS played in Massachusetts, right?

Fine, I'll cede that this was against the law. So is speeding and running through a red light.

I'll agree that this was an OOO umpire. I would not (and have ont in the past) said anything. But is this national freaking news?

Apparently so.

It was covered in depth by a local Spokane TV station last night and it is in this morning's paper.