I do not care if I did know or did not know that the 1B Coach (an Asst. Coach) had been ejected in his team's two previous games (I would like to know how this Coach has not been been suspended but that is a discussion for another thread.) and it may be because I have gotten crotchety in my old age, but the instant he came running out on to the diamond during play to complain about my call, he is gone for his third straight game.

MTD, Sr.

AMEN AMEN AMEN!!! ONE MILLION PERCENT. umps who ask for help on calls that have no business getting help are screwing the rest of us.

For me, as soon as I told him the ball was live an she didn't immediately tuck tail and head back to his box, he's gonna ride the lightening. Him maybe not realizing it was a live ball is the only benefit of doubt he should have got. Anything else past that would have been an ejection with me.

Ask Bobby Cox if your previous actions mean something on the field. You don't get any rope when you have been dumped two days in a row. And I can't believe tournament rules would have even allowed this jack hole back in the complex, let alone on the field.

It was a national tournament and it is quite a task putting together a committee to do it properly since they need to be prepared to follow the code. It is easier to let him go out and get dumped again.

As previously noted, each game starts anew. OP was aware of this coach's antics as he had this team in a previous game, though the coach didn't last a half an inning.

I realize each game is a new beginning, but obviously this particular assistant coach appears to have a real problem. Being as the head coach is responsible for the actions of their staff and team, at what point do you send the head coach packing along with the assistant?

I would find that very difficult to do as an umpire. If I was running the event and the same coach was ejected multiple times, at that point we, as a tourney staff, have an issue that needs to be addressed, but that is way above the role of an umpire.

I find it shocking as well that he was not suspended/banned from the event for multiple ejections.

I personally don't buy the entire it's too hard to set up a committee to do it properly argument. If it is done in advance, the committee is already made up. At that point the only tricky part is getting the committee together to be able to rule when needed. This could, depending on who is on the committee and the schedule of events, be a nightmare, but having the committee already set up should not be a problem at all.

UIC + TD = committee

I am 90% sure I would have ejected a coach immediately if I saw him charging the field during a live ball... but assuming I didn't... Just "NO!" with the stop sign is enough. You have a job to do. Three sentences with the coach is not that job.
Eject.
Eject
If, for some reason, this coach is not already ejected... this conversation is WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too long.
"Coach, I had the angle and the call. This conversation is over."
Again ... way way way too long.
Eject.
This is you baiting him... don't do that.
Eject.
Crap on a cracker... no umpire I've ever worked with would have given this guy all this rope and STILL given another warning... and the first name in a heated situation is almost always inappropriate.
Seriously... you didn't eject here either... I have no words.

Obviously ... I agree with those telling you you didn't handle it well. Sorry. :)

National tourney or not, by most assc rules be it ASA, USSSA, whatever...one ejection is automatically next game as well. Two in two days would be the whole tournament, or should have been anyways

Well, you see, there is this little thing called the ASA Code that dictates the actions of authorities in championship play. Too many people, umpires and coaches alike, think the way it is done, "at home" is the official way.

And you want to penalize an individual for breaking the rules by doing the same thing?

Full disclosure that I don't do ASA, for no specific reasons. But, in USSSA and NFHS, I would not be speaking of breaking a rule. Two ejections two straight days would be done for tournament. Unless something changes in a national tournament

Whatever the consequences are for the coach under NFHS are set by the state high school league or conference, not the national body. There are no NFHS national tournaments.

IDK if USSSA has a code that governs how such things are handled at their national tournaments, but ASA does. That was Mike's point.

Under NFHS rules with the MHSAA ejection protocol the coach would not be around to get a second ejection if this were high school. Once a coach is ejected he is ejected from the remainder of games that day, plus the next day of competition. I do believe there is also a rule in Michigan that two ejections during the season makes a coach ineligible for the post-season. I think the limit is 3 for a player.