Umpire abuse

[greymule]

Wouldn't it be best to have the incident reported to the sanctioning body that was running the event? Why let the guy go to some other city and threaten those umpires with his bat?

This was not a tournament; it was a township rec league. So I guess the township is the closest thing to the sanctioning body.

However, it will be interesting to see what ramifications the lifetime ban has. To prevent just the kind of thing baldgriff mentions, our association has procured a reciprocal agreement among all the leagues in the county that the two-week suspension concomitant with an ejection applies to all leagues. In other words, a player who is thrown out of an ASA game in one league is suspended for two weeks and cannot play in any of the other county leagues for the same period.

This might even apply to the one league that USSSA umps work. I'm not sure.

One note: The automatic two-week suspension applies when the incident is reported to the league. The umpires sometimes don't report ejections for lesser offenses.