bizarre scenario, what to do here?

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

bniu:

I had a similar situation a few years ago in a USSSA girls' fastpitch tournament. The age group for the game was 12U.

Left-handed batter bunts the ball downward. The ball strikes the HP and rolls forward in to fair territory and stops about six inches in front of HP. The B/R runs to first, I side step to the left and point toward fair territory, pumping my arm three or four times, while F2 just stands looking at me. The B/R reaches first base and the catcher then picks up the ball, and her coach comes running out of the dugout yelling time.

I grant the D-HC request for time and here is how our conversation went:

D-HC: "What's the call blue?" Note: USSSA umpires wear red, .

ME: "What do you mean coach?"

D-HC: "Wasn't the ball foul?"

ME: "No, it was fair."

D-HC: "Then why didn't you tell my catcher it was fair?"

ME: "I did."

D-HC: "No you didn't."

ME: "I sure did coach."

D-HC: "You never said anything."

ME: "I know I didn't say anything coach. I pointed toward fair terrritory."

D-HC: "My catcher didn't know what you were doing. You are supposed to tell her the ball was fair."

ME: "I did tell her it was fair. I pointed toward fair territory."

D-HC: "You have to tell her it was fair."

ME: "No coach. The rules/mechanics state that the umpire will verbalize a foul ball while pointing toward foul territory for a foul ball and will only point toward fair territory for a fair ball. And that is what I did."

D-HC: "She doesn't know that. You have to tell her it was fair."

ME: "I did coach, remember. The B/R knew it was a fair ball. We need to play ball now."

I know I let the conversation go long but the game had a time limit, the D team was getting beat pretty badly, and the temperature was in the mid-90's F. If D-HC wanted to chat, meaning I could stand there and not have to expend any energy in that kind of heat, who am I to not chat with him, .

MTD, Sr.

Might have ejected him for being too damn stupid to be in a position of teaching kids the game of softball and they publicly proving it.