Vegas

Undergrad student (Political Science/Economics)/Volunteer Firefighter/Grandparent Caretaker.

You're a Georgian? You, me and Fittske are the only GA folks that I know on here.

I get what you were trying to say - it's run the way you just mentioned.

This should have already been talked about and the scorekeepers would have been told very emphatically that if they interjected anything (because this could give someone an advantage), they would be removed as a scorekeeper. Now, if the league wants them to mention something, it should be so all can hear and the coach be given a chance to put the correct batter up, and it should be brought up every time this happens. They would not be able to announce it for one side when it happens but suddenly fall asleep at the wheel and forget to announce for the other side. One way or the other. The league is run that way that the statement that I bolded says. The scorekeeper acts as a check for the batting out of order as well as the pitch count for the pitchers that throw. That's just the way they chose to do it.

1. I probably should have. I put the ball in play, and was getting locked in. Maybe after the next pitch I should have. 3. I was trying to get up 1B line, I had batters swinging and coaches there, and up 3B line was right towards AC, and I didn't want to look aggressive, so I did the best I could. I asked him to grab my water bottle and tried to buy time. 4. He looked at me, I looked, and it was on from there. I still had to be courteous and assuming he had constructive stuff, but sadly he didn't.

I figured it was going to be something when the AC came out to warm the new F2 up, I looked to slide up the 1B line to avoid, but couldn't b/c of batters warming up and coaches, and I didn't want to go towards VC AC and look confrontational, so I turned to the score keeper and asked for my gatorade bottle, grabbed a drink, adjusted my mask, and there he was. I mentally shrugged and hoped for a positive inquiry. I was wrong and the events happened. I figured after the loud "That's enough" after the plate play to the AC, the issue was over.

The fences at the park on the sides are tight - the side fences are maybe 8-9 feet from the baselines, they wedged the park in there. The backstop is really shallow as well. I can take two long steps and hit the fence. I stand at the corner of the backstop, with the corner that I stand in corresponding to which team is batting, it's the only place that I can stand that isn't essentially in the dugout or in the on deck circle. I am aware of the rule about the umpire not doing anything. We have a scorekeeper that sits behind the backstop on a raised platform that called the attention and started the events in motion, so my hand was kind of forced at that point. But when the AC tries to make a point in those shallow fences loud enough with batters and spectators to hear after I've warned him, AND the HC's already explained it to him, he's got to go.

Why ignore in this situation? It's a question that deserves an answer. If it was me, then I would ask him to come out and professionally explain to him the rule and then get the game going. We had a giant mandatory meeting with the HCs/ACs and informed them of the rule changes yesterday before the season started. It's in the handbooks and I go over it in the pre game. If the AC can't get it after that, I don't know what to tell him.

Welcome to the site. Even though you're a Met fan, all is forgiven.

12U rec game. HT Batter comes up to the plate. Before I put ball in play, scorekeeper calls my attention. He tells me HT has the on deck batter and the at the plate batter switched. Both lineups when they're turned in are "scorekeeper controlled" in our league, meaning that all lineup switches, substations, and pitch/inning counts are kept up by the department. There were a bunch of discrepancies over the last few seasons, so the county decided to keep that in line. We set the lineup right and move to play - when the VT rat AC starts yelling from the dugout, "Shouldn't that be an out? They switched the lineup!" I ignore him and proceed to start the inning. In the VT's half of the next inning, there's a play at the plate - VT runner steps on F2's mitt with ball in it before he hits the dish, I bang the out. After that play, F2 tries to throw down to third and muffs the transition from mitt to ball. After that play, VT's HC comes out to ask what I have on the plate call. We have a discussion, and VT HC calm on the way back, while the VT AC is yelling, "Your back was turned! He dropped the ball!" in the dugout. I tell VT AC "That's enough" and the inning ends a few batters later. During the change over, VT AC comes to warm his pitcher up. I'm talking with the scorekeeper, turn around to adjust my mask, and the AC is looking at me. We have a conversation: "That's the second call you've missed today." "Excuse me, coach?" "The lineup switch and the blown call at home last inning, you..." "You can count the rest of the calls from the parking lot, coach, *crow hop*, you're done." He comes unglued. I put his team back in the dugout and tell him that he leaves or his team forfeits. The HC comes and gets him and the park director moves him to the lot. The game ends without further incident.

It's not a problem. Just make a local rule saying that any provisions that prohibit the superceding of national rules by a local rule shall, by local rule, be superceded. Voila! It's strange - we play by the Georgia HS rules, which is FED. FED 5-1-2e says one warning, second EJ. But local rules, so they say...

There is a rule in our rec league that says offensive players have to have helmets on at all times when on fields and there is not time called. I give manager warning when player exits dugout without a helmet to grave a bat. Next inning, batter draws a walk, then takes his helmet off midway down the line. I call batter out. Coach comes firing down third base line. Manager - No warning, blue? Vegas - In the first, coach. Manager - But it is my first year! Vegas - I explained the rule to both your assistant and you in the pregame and in the warning. Manager - But you have to warn me specifically! Vegas - That's enough coach. We're playing. That's the first specific warning I've heard, ever.

Good for him. No part of that deserves to be in the game.

Could U1 have just slid into fair territory after Prince catches the ball for the first out and passes him? That way, U1 has an angle to the runner getting back and Prince getting to the bag? Am I thinking this through correctly?

My mom can still lock me up anywhere with either the full name or the number 11 - I was 11 pounds when I was born. My grandfather has a two note whistle that will send me running towards whereever he might be at the time. If I pulled that stunt that that kid did? My baseball equipment would have been sold. It's discipline.