Taking One For The Team

[5stardog]

Outside the obvious stupidity, is there a specific rule governing a coach or assistant coach telling/yelling to a batter in little league baseball?

[bluezebra]

Originally Posted by 5stardog

Outside the obvious stupidity, is there a specific rule governing a coach or assistant coach telling/yelling to a batter in little league baseball?

Offense or defense?

Bob

[5stardog]

The coach of the team batting yelled to the batter "take one for the team". I clearly heard this from the other side of the field.

[mcrowder]

Who cares what a coach says to his players?

[aceholleran]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Who cares what a coach says to his players?

Amen.

I did a game the other week where one coach constantly berated his players--a real hard-***. A fan (from that team) who was parked next to me, asked my opinion on the coach's manner.

"Don't care," I said. "He didn't yell at me."

Ace

[5stardog]

Originally Posted by mcrowder

Who cares what a coach says to his players?

Anyone concerned about the safety of youth players should care. The issue is safety not the coach saying something to the player. Deliberately asking/telling a kid to do something that could get him severely injured or killed is unconscionable. Everyone involved should care. In my opinion the coach should be ejected and banned. Regardless i was just asking if it was against the rules.

[Tim C]

Gosh I can't wait until the Little League WS is over.

[umpduck11]

Originally Posted by 5stardog

Anyone concerned about the safety of youth players should care. The issue is safety not the coach saying something to the player. Deliberately asking/telling a kid to do something that could get him severely injured or killed is unconscionable. Everyone involved should care. In my opinion the coach should be ejected and banned. Regardless i was just asking if it was against the rules.

Ease up some, man. We're not talking about a coach telling his players
to bat without a helmet and then take one in the cranium.
If the kid's parents don't have a problem with it, why should I ? If they
do have a problem with it,they'll handle it. Besides, you hear that crap
all the time, from players and coaches.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by 5stardog

Anyone concerned about the safety of youth players should care. The issue is safety not the coach saying something to the player. Deliberately asking/telling a kid to do something that could get him severely injured or killed is unconscionable. Everyone involved should care. In my opinion the coach should be ejected and banned. Regardless i was just asking if it was against the rules.

No. but someone will always want the umpire to do something the PARENTS and the BOD should do.

[dokeeffe]

Originally Posted by 5stardog

Outside the obvious stupidity, is there a specific rule governing a coach or assistant coach telling/yelling to a batter in little league baseball?

You can understand PLAYERS yelling out, "take one for the team". For a youth COACH to do so is worse than stupid. How about this: A kid OBVIOUSLY takes a pitch to the lead arm as instructed by the coach. You correctly announce, "that's a ball" (assuming the pitch was outside the zone when it hit the player) "get back in the box". When the coach comes down the line waiving his arms and barking at you, run him for conduct. My guess is he won't do it again.