At what point should the umpires get involved when the benches start yelling at each other?

Uhmmm, how about - the moment the first player opens their loudmouth!!! Put them; and their coach, on notice immediately. Tell them to control themselves, or someone will leave pronto.....

Soooo,
 

Rog:

If you were working a game of college aged players or older would you have the same answer?

Tee

I've jumped on college teams right away for mouthing off to the other team from the dugout. If you want to trash talk, go back to the sandlot. You let them keep going and eventually someone is going to go hard into a base, or a pitcher is going to plunk a hitter and now you have a bigger problem than if you just told them to shut their mouths in the first place.

I've never had a coach get on me for telling players to quit yelling, trash talking or provoking each other. All I have ever gotten are thank you's.

Re: Soooo,
 

Re: "If you were working a game of college aged players or older would you have the same answer?"
Would you like their names? They never pushed that button again!

Now, about this: "when the benches start yelling at each other?" Are you saying that you whould ignored this?
Along with the rules in effect, i.e. Bench Jockeying -
NFHS # 3-3-1g-2
NCAA # 3-6c, 5-16; and, Code of Ethics #5
OBR 4.06a-2


[Edited by Rog on Apr 9th, 2003 at 05:29 PM]