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Old Sun Apr 19, 2009, 10:58pm
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I got the worst call comment from a coach today during a PONY tournament.

Tie game and bottom of the seventh inning. R1 is at second base with two outs. DC yells to her catcher form the dugout to request time. F2 asks for time and I grant it. DC comes out of the dugout and yells to the outfielders to move in a couple of steps.

As the DC heads back towards the dugout I let her know that she was being charged with a conference. Here's how the conversation continued:

DC: What do you mean I'm being charged with a conference? You can't do that, my catcher was granted the timeout not me!

Me: It became a charged conference when you came onto the field and gave instructions to your players

Coach: That's the worst call ever. Don't think you've heard the last of this; I'll be talking to the UIC when this game is over

Me: That's fine coach but for now I need to know who you will be replacing your pitcher. That was your fourth conference.

B2 smacks a gapper to right-center field on the first pitch from the new F1 bringing in the winning run.

My partner and I leave the field hearing comments of how I had won the game for the other team. Yada Yada Yada.
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 07:32am
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What is pony? Glorified rec? This is all preseason stuff right now around here until Memorial Day.

I might get flamed but I probably would have let that go. Let the girls play - I'm not big on the large and in charge stuff. Stuff like that I just let the coach know what I would normally do.

Championship play - Whole different ball game. Some BS preseason Pony .. what ? 12U? tourney... nah. Sorry.

But not the worst call ever...
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 11:15am
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What is pony? Glorified rec? This is all preseason stuff right now around here until Memorial Day.

I might get flamed but I probably would have let that go. Let the girls play - I'm not big on the large and in charge stuff. Stuff like that I just let the coach know what I would normally do.

Championship play - Whole different ball game. Some BS preseason Pony .. what ? 12U? tourney... nah. Sorry.

But not the worst call ever...
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 12:45pm
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What is pony? Glorified rec? This is all preseason stuff right now around here until Memorial Day.

I might get flamed but I probably would have let that go. Let the girls play - I'm not big on the large and in charge stuff. Stuff like that I just let the coach know what I would normally do.

Championship play - Whole different ball game. Some BS preseason Pony .. what ? 12U? tourney... nah. Sorry.

But not the worst call ever...
It wasn't a BS preseason game. This was a Sanctioned PONY Qualifier Tournament. My enforcing the rule wasn't about being large and in charge.
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 01:25pm
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I worked a couple of games of the 14u national champs. They could flat out play. Thought for a moment I was back in Texas doing FP. Next game I woke up and realilzed it was just a dream.
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 02:22pm
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I disagree - It was definately large and in charge and a gotcha.. or at least the way you described it. Thats obvious you pulled a gotcha.

I'll give you that it wasnt a bs tourney - pony league world tourney or whatever - It still would have taken a small amount of preventative umpiring to keep that from happening. Even if it was a big tourney and you were strickly enforcing - "coach are you sure, that will be a charged conference".
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 02:59pm
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Wade, as I read what happened, you are being unfair to Michael. F2 requested TIME, not the coach. Once the coach came out shouting instructions to his players, it became a charged conference. The coach did not ask for the TIME or give the PU an opportunity to prevent anything. It seems clear from the coach's response, s/he went through F2 intentionally under the belief that this would not be a charged conference.
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Old Mon Apr 20, 2009, 03:06pm
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Well maybe the coach deserved that gotcha then. I'm not sure of the whole situation at the time. Seems like a little bragging about a gotcha call to me.. sometimes in the heat of battle the gotcha gets gotten...
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I got the worst call comment from a coach today during a PONY tournament.

Tie game and bottom of the seventh inning. R1 is at second base with two outs. DC yells to her catcher form the dugout to request time. F2 asks for time and I grant it. DC comes out of the dugout and yells to the outfielders to move in a couple of steps.

As the DC heads back towards the dugout I let her know that she was being charged with a conference. Here's how the conversation continued:

DC: What do you mean I'm being charged with a conference? You can't do that, my catcher was granted the timeout not me!

Me: It became a charged conference when you came onto the field and gave instructions to your players

Coach: That's the worst call ever. Don't think you've heard the last of this; I'll be talking to the UIC when this game is over
Michael, this is where you missed a great opportunity If he wanted to talk to the UIC, you should have located the UIC and told the coach to go ahead and talk to him, NOW!

God, I loved that one the first time I heard it!
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