It's right in the rule book, Blue . . .

[FUBLUE]

Youth 14U "OPEN" invitational...

R1 on 1B, steal of second base. Through pulls fielder towards first about two steps. When fielder (F6) catches ball, runner is about 3 feet from her. Small collision as runner tries to avoid being tagged. F6 falls backwards, but holds onto the ball. She hesitates about 2 seconds and hops up and runs to dugout. As soon as I finish my out call I turn and guess who's there? F6's coach, wanting me to eject R1 for "running her over."

Long story short, he told me that ASA states runners must slide and that any contact is automatic ejecting.

I explain to him the rules and that only I and my partner (No UIC in this tourney) get to decide what warrants ejection, and he says he'll just have his girls run over their fielders. My response: That's fine coach, but now that I know any contact by your runner is intended to be malicious, I'll eject the runner AND both you coaches, so the game would then be over."

He then said he would sue me for everything I have (both dollars) because I don't know the rule.

Again...MORON!