NFHS Jewelry Rant

[MGKBLUE]

My jewelry pet peeve is not with high school that has a penalty. My pet peeve is with ASA, where there is no penalty so the players try and get away with wearing jewelry. If caught they take it off, if not caught they feel as though they have won the battle.

I cannot stand having to stop ASA games three, four times for the removal of jewelry, it really does affect the flow of the game.

ASA, please put a penalty into the rule book. A rule with no penalty is not worth the paper it is written on.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by MGKBLUE

My jewelry pet peeve is not with high school that has a penalty. My pet peeve is with ASA, where there is no penalty so the players try and get away with wearing jewelry. If caught they take it off, if not caught they feel as though they have won the battle.

I cannot stand having to stop ASA games three, four times for the removal of jewelry, it really does affect the flow of the game.

ASA, please put a penalty into the rule book. A rule with no penalty is not worth the paper it is written on.

Horsecrap. There is a rule if they refuse to take it off. If I tell you take off jewelry that I judge to be dangerous, you'd better do it, or I'll toss you for showing up an umpire and committing USC.

Easy way to handle it: as you walk into the dugout for the bat inspection, remind the players to take off their jewelry. If anyone has a question about an individual piece, they can ask me then.

I rarely have problems with jewelry on my field, and I frequently get thanked for reminding them.

[bkbjones]

Originally Posted by MGKBLUE

My jewelry pet peeve is not with high school that has a penalty. My pet peeve is with ASA, where there is no penalty so the players try and get away with wearing jewelry. If caught they take it off, if not caught they feel as though they have won the battle.

I cannot stand having to stop ASA games three, four times for the removal of jewelry, it really does affect the flow of the game.

ASA, please put a penalty into the rule book. A rule with no penalty is not worth the paper it is written on.

The rule is there. If you feel it is a danger, enforce it. The rules don't say anything about the flow of the game. Just don't mess it up as an umpire. If the players mess it up, that's their fault.

And the rule is NOT a gotcha. "Gotcha" umpiring is a different thing entirely.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by MGKBLUE

My pet peeve is with ASA, where there is no penalty so the players try and get away with wearing jewelry. If caught they take it off, if not caught they feel as though they have won the battle.

I cannot stand having to stop ASA games three, four times for the removal of jewelry, it really does affect the flow of the game.

ASA, please put a penalty into the rule book. A rule with no penalty is not worth the paper it is written on.

Hell, NO! ASA's is just fine. If some idiot parent wants to let their child wear something that will not harm another, that is their problem, not mine.

If you expect me to be the player's parent, I want to be able to claim every one of them on my taxes.

[NCASAUmp]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

Hell, NO! ASA's is just fine. If some idiot parent wants to let their child wear something that will not harm another, that is their problem, not mine.

If you expect me to be the player's parent, I want to be able to claim every one of them on my taxes.

Don't you claim them already, Mike?

We should at least be able to claim the coaches.

[CecilOne]

Regardless of how you recognize the jewelry, remember we can not tell a player to remove anything, just that they can not play while wearing it.

Formal inspections no, but I do watch the players as they go out to field, so that I can correct all of them at once, not one each inning.

[wadeintothem]

Sorry about that, I didnt see it.
Maybe you see too good.