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Old Mon Aug 26, 2013, 04:39pm
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Let me try this again:

In LL All Stars and above, a protest is lodged with the game UIC, UIC confers with his/her crew to attempt to resolve, if they can't resolve then UIC confers with the TD who calls "LL HQ" to get a ruling on the play. The umpires don't decide if the protest is valid.

In regular season, the protest procedure is per local league rules.
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Old Mon Aug 26, 2013, 08:35pm
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Let me try this again:

In LL All Stars and above, a protest is lodged with the game UIC, UIC confers with his/her crew to attempt to resolve, if they can't resolve then UIC confers with the TD who calls "LL HQ" to get a ruling on the play. The umpires don't decide if the protest is valid.

In regular season, the protest procedure is per local league rules.
We understand what you are saying. The question is why bring up irrelevant information?
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We understand what you are saying. The question is why bring up irrelevant information?
You may understand, but not everyone does. What, in your opinion, is the irrelevant information? The original post was talking about an umpire not accepting a protest in LL tourny play.
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Old Mon Aug 26, 2013, 09:42pm
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You may understand, but not everyone does. What, in your opinion, is the irrelevant information? The original post was talking about an umpire not accepting a protest in LL tourny play.
Your post about taking a protest using the non-tournament procedure.
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Pardon me. I was using it to contrast tourny vs non-tourny. You may disregard if you wish.
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Old Mon Aug 26, 2013, 10:01pm
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Pardon me. I was using it to contrast tourny vs non-tourny. You may disregard if you wish.
How can you contrast something you don't mention until someone asks what your point was?
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Old Tue Aug 27, 2013, 09:31am
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In regular season, the protest procedure is per local league rules.
Actually, the regular season procedure you described is by LL rule 4.19. A protest report is to be filed by both the offended manager and the game UIC, and then the protest committee meets and resolves the issue.

I can't imagine a BOD member on duty at the game being given that responsibility. In my old local league, many of the BOD members knew very little about baseball (secretary, player agent, treasurer, concession stand manager, equipment manager, field maintenance manager, etc.) Asking them to resolve a protest would not take five to ten minutes. They would immediately try to call me (when I was league UIC) and chances are I'd be umpiring on another field. Then they would try to find the rule in the book and have no clue what the wording in the book actually meant, IF they found the rule in the first place. Finally they would just say Screw It and suck their thumb in the corner.
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Old Tue Aug 27, 2013, 11:05am
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I can't imagine a BOD member on duty at the game being given that responsibility.
Agreed completely. BOD members at my field MIGHT be the UIC, or the league pres (ex UIC who knows the rules) ... or it could be the Team Mom President or the Treasurer... needed volunteers but certainly not someone I want tooling around the rulebook.
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Old Thu Aug 29, 2013, 10:57am
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The basis for my original post was to clarify who should have been called out, the runner or the batter. Mr. Booth advised if the catcher drops the ball he becomes an OP and 7.11 applies, so calling the runner out was proper. Thank you. As stated I was not at the game (in Mexico fishing) and was told of the play and protest by others. The reason for my post was to clarify the call, not the protest. Hark Dulai is the UIC for the league hosting the tourney. His brother was the protesting manager. Hark was nothing more than a fan at that game. He replied to this post, clarifying information I had gotten wrong, including the catcher dropping the ball. Instead of taking the corrected information Hark gets bombarded because as a IUC he should "back the blue", among other things. I have since learned more information and yes the PU blew the call and yes the tourney officials dropped the ball (there was an attempt to protest).

I am a little league umpire, no more-no less. It has been suggested by several High School coaches that I join a High School Association. I have been told I have the talent to work much higher levels. Even though it is good on the ego that others think highly of my skills, being retired law enforcement with a passion to travel the world with fly rods in hand, I do not "live" umpiring like many on the board. Even though I do not live umpiring, I worked over 100 games this year and want to be the best I can be. I will soon be taking the position of our Dist UIC. When I discovered this web site I thought it would be a great avenue to get answers to questions I may have. My friend Hark Dulai is an outstanding little league UIC and HS umpire, working his way towards college ball. When he replies to this post to clarify the details he gets kicked in the teeth.

I hoped this site would be a venue for people like me to reach out to others, who have much more training, experience and knowledge. Instead I see a bunch of roosters in a ring trying to prove who has the sharpest spurs. I will hopefully find another site where it's members are not so critical of each other. I am now deleting this site from my Favorites, heading to my man cave to tie some flies for an up coming trip to Brazil. Good luck to you all.
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Old Thu Aug 29, 2013, 11:08am
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Teeth kicked in? There's been nothing even remotely close to that in my estimation.
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Old Thu Aug 29, 2013, 11:48am
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Hark Dulai is the UIC for the league hosting the tourney. His brother was the protesting manager. Hark was nothing more than a fan at that game. He replied to this post, clarifying information I had gotten wrong, including the catcher dropping the ball. Instead of taking the corrected information Hark gets bombarded because as a IUC he should "back the blue", among other things. I have since learned more information and yes the PU blew the call and yes the tourney officials dropped the ball (there was an attempt to protest).


My friend Hark Dulai is an outstanding little league UIC and HS umpire, working his way towards college ball. When he replies to this post to clarify the details he gets kicked in the teeth.
This is an umpire Forum and here is what your friend said


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The worse part is the the four umpires on the field never got together to discuss the call. If you are going to have four umpires during an all star game you would assume at least one of them would know the rules.
I realize he is your friend but it is Hark who "blasted" the umpires who were present by saying that the "other" umpires should know the rules.

You said Hark works college and HS and therefore he should know first hand that your partner (s) do not interject themselves into the game unless there is a protest or the PU asks for assistance. There was not a protest nor did the PU ask for assistance so there was no need for the other umpires to get involved, yet Hark took exception and I can understand because his brother was coaching. "Too close to home"

In a nutshell we have a UIC (Hark) whose brother was the coach and we have yourself a friend of the UIC and when the replys were not to your liking , you call it "bashing" etc. when all were were doing is responding to the facts presented. Hark is the one who threw the other umpires under the bus by his comments.

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Old Thu Aug 29, 2013, 12:10pm
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Wow.

If that was "bashing" I can't see how you survive a single day on the field.
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Wow.

If that was "bashing" I can't see how you survive a single day on the field.
Much less a career as a LEO.
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