Arguing balls and strikes: Ejection by Base Umpire?

[RKBUmp]

If you know your partner has hearing problems and the coach said something that crossed the line, why wouldn't you dump them?

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by RKBUmp

If you know your partner has hearing problems and the coach said something that crossed the line, why wouldn't you dump them?

I would warn first... likely long before it got to where it seems to have gotten in the OP ... but after the warning if he keeps it up, BU is definitely within his rights to toss the guy.

[bniu]

Originally Posted by RKBUmp

If you know your partner has hearing problems and the coach said something that crossed the line, why wouldn't you dump them?

The manuals sure don't state on how to deal with hard of hearing situations. I've worked games with deaf school teams where sometimes, the only person on the team that could speak was a player who was partially deaf so the player would actually handle most of the coach-umpire interactions. If I were working with a deaf partner, I'd still do as standard mechanics as possible, but I would not tolerate coaches taking advantage of my partner's disabilities. Once working with a deaf team, I let the coach use his cell phone to type messages when he had questions about rules/situations/etc. They were pretty cool and appreciated the efforts to bridge the gap in communications.