Throwing the Bat - LL

[collint1993]

For rec league, I normally issue a warning to the team of the offender(especially if the catcher gets hurt) and 99% of the time the coaches will agree with you that the kids can't be throwing the bats. If it happens again, I'll call the kid out. But for travel I normally just ask the coach after the inning to talk to his team, and they normally do.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by collint1993

For rec league, I normally issue a warning to the team of the offender(especially if the catcher gets hurt) and 99% of the time the coaches will agree with you that the kids can't be throwing the bats. If it happens again, I'll call the kid out. But for travel I normally just ask the coach after the inning to talk to his team, and they normally do.

Which rule allows you to call the kid out? You can't make stuff up to suit your purpose unless the league you work for has such a rule in place. LL doesn't.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by collint1993

For rec league, I normally issue a warning to the team of the offender(especially if the catcher gets hurt) and 99% of the time the coaches will agree with you that the kids can't be throwing the bats. If it happens again, I'll call the kid out. But for travel I normally just ask the coach after the inning to talk to his team, and they normally do.

Good. Always good to invent rules to suit your purposes.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by kylejt

Honestly? I don't have the authority to eject a coach for unsportsmanlike conduct? I give him a chance to save a player from an ejection, and he ignores it (not that it's ever happened to me).

Yeah, he'd go for UC. And we'll see what his replacement wants to do.

How about, if the coach puts the kid back in, you let him, then follow through on the ejection.

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

How about, if the coach puts the kid back in, you let him, then follow through on the ejection.

Ejection Report:

In the bottom of the first, I issued a warning to HomeTeam batter #15 for carelessly throwing a bat. In the bottom of the third, HomeTeam batter #15 again thew a bat carelessly, hitting the catcher in the shin guards. I approached HomeTeam Coach HomeCoach and asked him to remove #15 from his lineup and place him on the bench.

In the top of the 6th, HomeCoach approached me and advised #15 would be entering the game as the first baseman. I allowed the substitution, then ejected #15 from the game for his actions in the first and third innings.

I don't think that would go over well in any well-run league.

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by yawetag

Ejection Report:



I don't think that would go over well in any well-run league.

+1

My point exactly.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by yawetag

Ejection Report:



I don't think that would go over well in any well-run league.

Yeah, makes sense. I'm thinking of a situation in youth basketball where I might suggest a coach pull a kid rather than deal with it myself.

1. I can't force him to do it.

2. If he does and later puts him back in, I'm not going to eject a kid in the 3rd quarter for an inadvertently hard foul in the 2nd. If I didn't pull the trigger then, I've given him a 2nd chance.

[DG]

Is missing a game a LL rule, or League rule, I dont' know because no LL around here. For small leagues around here it a league rule. Most around here it is a league rule. What other league rules don't we like so will not enforce?

What if little Johnny pitches bat in 6th innning? If he misses rest of that game only, what did he learn? Hanging onto the bat is not hard to do, most everyone else in the league can.

[kylejt]

The game suspension is mandatory on an ejection.

LL has given the umpire guidance (it's not a rule) to warn, and eject errant bat flingers.

They've also given us (also not a rule) the option of having the manager remove the player from the game, to avoid the suspension.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by kylejt

The game suspension is mandatory on an ejection.

LL has given the umpire guidance (it's not a rule) to warn, and eject errant bat flingers.

They've also given us (also not a rule) the option of having the manager remove the player from the game, to avoid the suspension.

You'd think that with all that "guidance" they could go ahead and make a rule.

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by kylejt

Ejection is harsh for a nonvoluntary act, as it carries the one game suspension.

"Coach, number seven is done for the day. You pull him, or I eject him. Your choice".

And if a coach pulls him, and tries to reenter him later in the game, eject the coach.

It's pretty simple. No need to go Ozzy on the little kids.

Really? You have direction and you choose not to use it so that makes you a total fool. This is why LL is so F'd up because you have rules and no one follows them.

And you can kiss my back side with that comment!

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

And you can kiss my back side with that comment!

Sorry, Ozzy, but in the interest of fair and accurate reporting, the actual correct terminology is "going Ozzy" on someone. I checked. Your photo is right next to the definition.

[kylejt]

East County, thanks for checking in.

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