Do you toss this coach?

[waltjp]

In this situation the umps should have cut it off as soon as they became aware of what was happening. I had a similar situation in a Babe Ruth game a couple of years ago.

I was the BU. The PU tosses a manager for questioning his strike zone. (The PU's zone was awful, but that's a whole other story.) Anyway, about an inning after the manager is tossed I see him standing next to his dugout and talking to the team and other ***'t coaches.

I make the PU aware of the situation and tell him that I'll handle it, figuring that if the PU went over it would only exasperate the problem. I informed the manager that he was removed from the game and was not allowed to communicate with his team. With this he starts screaming at me, "What are you going to do, call the police?!"

Now this is not my fight to begin with and I'm certainly not going to get into an arguement with a manager who has already been removed from the game, so I repied in a voice loud enough for some of the parents standing nearby to hear, "Coach, the only call I'm about to make is a forfeit in favor of the other team. It's up to you."

With that I turned and walked away. When I looked back he was gone.