Confront or Leave Alone?

[chapmaja]

Originally Posted by EsqUmp

Try reading what the umpire manual says because you are being grossly misinformed by this organization.

Something to consider. What is you require a player to remove band aids on her ears because it might be covering an earring and there is no earring, but an infected ear. You have now opened yourself to possible legal liability for making her remove the bandages when they were not covering anything illegal.

This is no different than in high school basketball or volleyball with a belly button ring. (or softball for that matter). We can't ask a player to lift their shirt up so we can see if they are wearing jewelry, but if during the course of play, jewelry that was under the uniform becomes exposed, we have to deal with it according to the rules. This is the same with a tongue ring. If we can't see it, there is nothing to call, but if the player sticks his/her tongue out and it is visible now we need to enforce the rule because the player allowed it to be visible and it is illegal to wear jewelry.