Michael,

He posts more on another board, and I'm quite confident he is not a troll.

He may not be a "rules guru", but he strikes me as someone who is serious about improving his knowledge and his umpiring.

JM

Thanks UmpJM,

You are correct in your assessment. I am not a rules guru. I have been doing this less than a year. But I am always on the boards trying to learn and I always have a rules book with me and I do read it. I have moved up in our organization rapidly.


The Restriction thing was an idea i threw out there. Not a good idea :(

I still say there is a difference between Removing and Ejecting but don't know how you would remove a coach without ejection so ejection it is!

Under the very rule we are discussing, I agree that the pitcher is REMOVED -- becasue of the second visit in an inning. He may stay on the bench.

For the mamager / coach, there's no such thing as "removal" that's different from "ejection" (except maybe in post-game administration / penalties administered by the league).

I was speaking to the ejection/removal of the manager.

Last night one AA umpire explained his opinion: "Removal is done only verbally, ejection is signalled physically along with the verbal. Nothing else is different."

I like this opinion. :)