Fall ball

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by Hoosier_Dave

Just got a call from a league director organizing a fall ball league. 15 teams, 10U, 12U. 12U has both a competitive level and an instructional level.

League rule: no tolerance for unruly parents. If a parent gets ejected, the coach is ejected too. If a parent refuses to leave after being ejected, call the sheriff and remove him/her. I have no doubts that he'll do this.

This was the result of an umpire leaving the field during a game because of unruly parents.

In all the games, in all the years I've worked, I've never even CONSIDERED ejecting a parent. Fans are outside the fences - ignore them.

This is your league foisting off a problem area onto YOU, when they should handle it themselves. Making this ejection YOUR problem (and exacerbating the anger by ejecting the coach as well) is more likely to become a parking lot problem for you.

I am all in favor of "No tolerance for unruly parents", but making it the UMPIRE's issue is a HORRIBLE idea.