Submission for quote of the year, 2006

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Originally Posted by blu_bawls

The girls followed her coaches direction. She walked the player but in doing so she threw an illegal pitch and decided the game.

This is not an opportunity for preventitive umpiring but an opportunity to enforce a rule and go home.

AMEN...we are NOT out there to coach! I have another example:

16u PONY tournament...in the 6th inning, coach A puts in a CR for the C. Now I KNOW that he has already used all his bench players..BUT..I do not say a WORD..sure enough, after the one pitch, coach B starts going 'hey blue!' THEN I pull out the lineup..go through the motions of looking it over, and then bangs out that CR (and disqualifies of course!) for the infraction...The point being, it is the job of these coaches to know the rules..especially on the travel team level,where there is serious $$ involved.If you want me to coach too, pay me more than the $xx a game I am being paid to just umpire.