Conundrum!

[kono]

Originally posted by mick
Doesn't it really ever end?
mick

It sure doesn't end in LL. I find myself "correcting situations" all the time when I'm at the fields (either before or after my games) - mostly moving warm-ups away from spectator areas. There's nothing worse than taking a baseball in the back of the head because kids were being kids and foolign around. I don't have a problem with them fooling around - I have a problem with the coaches that don't move them away from populated areas.

My most notable "correction" was last year - the league added bullpens to the back of the dugouts on the boys' field. Coming up to the area after the softball game that I had just completed, I look in the bullpen - bike on the ground, not 1, not2, not 3, but 4 batters loosening up - taking practice swings. I go up to the fence and send the kids back to the dugout (LL Majors and below - no on-deck batters). The coach gets wind of this and tries to give me a ration of crap - all of which gets fed right back to him, including the citiation of the rule and who will be held liable if someone gets hurt.

I made sure that the league president knew about the incident as well as a few other key people. To make a long story short (well maybe not so short - but not as long as I could make it ) - I'm still umping for the league. He's not coaching this year.