Confront or Leave Alone?

[Manny A]

So I was BU in a HS Varsity game last night. When I moved to C after a base steal of second, I noticed that the visiting team's F6 had a stud earring on the top of her left ear. During a break in the action, I moved closer to F6 and told her, "Hey, 13, when you go back to the dugout, please remove your earring." She said she forgot she had it on, and she would comply.

An inning later, I was back in C and looked to see if F6 took care of the issue, and she had. But then as I went back to the bag on attempted pickoff where F4 slid over to cover, I saw that F4 had an earring on the top of her right ear! WTH?! After the inning ended, I got F4's attention as she headed for her dugout, telling her, "Hey 6, make sure you take off that earring!"

So now we go to the next inning, and I eventually work my way over to C again. I look at F4, and I don't see the earring anymore. Rather, I see a bandage! Gawddamm!t!

I wanted to approach the head coach between innings and tell him, "Coach, I saw 6 with an earring and told her to take care of it. Now she has a bandaid on that ear. I'm going to assume there's no earring under that bandaid, but if there is, both of you are going to be restricted to the bench." But after I had already gotten into a couple of "discussions" with them over their bat inspection and their desire to sit on buckets (all three coaches!) outside the far end of the dugout, I just let it go. The game was a blow-out, the weather was unfavorable, and I just wanted to get out of there and go home.

What would you have done in that situation?