MS North Half Playoffs

[jkumpire]

With respect, IMO your post is a little OOB there Steven.

Give him some grace about this, I feel badly for the kids in this situation too. In Ohio a couple of years ago, as I remember it, for a trip to the state tournament a team blew out another team. The team that won the game played everyone they could, and hs had 26 guys on his roster. Well, before the the Regional tournament he had a 25 man roster he had to fill out to tournament director, and the 26th player on the bench played but was not on the roster he filled out.

So the team that won the game forefited the game. How can you not feel awful for kids who lose becasue an adult administrator or coach made in essence, a harmless error, or a mistake he should have known better about?

[David B]

Originally Posted by jkumpire

With respect, IMO your post is a little OOB there Steven.

Give him some grace about this, I feel badly for the kids in this situation too. In Ohio a couple of years ago, as I remember it, for a trip to the state tournament a team blew out another team. The team that won the game played everyone they could, and hs had 26 guys on his roster. Well, before the the Regional tournament he had a 25 man roster he had to fill out to tournament director, and the 26th player on the bench played but was not on the roster he filled out.

So the team that won the game forefited the game. How can you not feel awful for kids who lose becasue an adult administrator or coach made in essence, a harmless error, or a mistake he should have known better about?

Sure this is an umpiring board, but I know when it gets playoff time I know most of these players and coaches from my years of calling. I've had them in summer ball, back when they played Jr. High and JV, and most of the coaches remain the same, maybe changing schools but still in the area.

So when something like this happens, I feel for the players, my son is playing Jr. high ball now and i think of that happening to him.

And now that he is playing "school ball" i also am more inclined to understand that "coaches are idiots".

They don't know the rules, they don't care about the rules, they just want to complain about the rules when they don't fit their situation.

Someone actually paid this guy to coach these boys - maybe they will learn from the adversity.

Thanks
David