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To respond to those curious... The PU looked down to me, called time and motioned me in to confer because he believed it to be a swing but wasn't sure on the ruling. I don't know if it was necessarily "hard-ass"...i enforce what the rule book says to enforce, no easier, no harder...but everyone is entiitled to their own opinions

2 man crew on a 10U All-Star Game...I am the BU Top of 3rd Inning, batter gets hit in the head by a pitch, but makes in attempt to swing imo. after consulting with the PU, we ruled it a dad ball strike and called the kid back from first base. This obviously did not make anybody happy with me bc all they saw was the batter get hit in the head and me call a strike. Manager and first base coach argued for a while with my partner and me, then let it go. The parents in the stands didn't stop making comments about me for the rest of the game. Now Mid 5, and we are approaching the 2 hour time limit (Rule book cleary stated 6 innings or 2 hours, whichever came first). Apparently, the commisioner had come and told the coaches that it would be 6 innings with no time limit, but hadnt bothered to stick around to inform us... Our training is to enforce the rule book unless our asignor tells us otherwise. As i was explaining this to the manager of the VT (the team whose kid got hit) this is the convo: Me:Coach, unless a league official instructs me otherwise, i have to enforce the rule book, VT Manager: Does it say in the rule book that if a kid gets hit in the head its a strike? Me; Coach if you bring that up again i will eject you. we are done. If i had it to do over, i probably would have EJd for that. Thoughts?

The funny thing is that the coaches that we throwing underhand to the players never complained or asked...not even once. This guy was standing on my left, in order to coach the kids while they were batting.

OK, I take back the part about your assignor being a jerk, it sounds like it was out of his hands. Still stupid that the coach can say he doesn't want a certain umpire, though

What a jerk...I thought assignors were supposed to stand up for their umpires! It doesn't make any sense that you lose two games just because a coach didn't think it was very nice of you to throw him out. EJ was the right move in my opinion. You told him to stop arguing balls and strikes with you and he didn't. That will always be grounds for an EJ

In my leauge the kid gets a chance to hit five underhand pitches from their coach before hitting off the tee. My main job at this level is safe/out and fair/foul.

So I'm a 14 year old umpire...This game is Shetland level, the 6 and under leauge. From the moment I step onto the field, this guy is on me, ordering me to clean the plate. This continues throughout the entire game. I do not acknowledge this, but continue to clean the plate when it needs to be cleaned. He then proceeds to argue a call at first base, asking how I could call someone out if I wasn't even looking at the play. I informed the coach that I had indeed been looking at the play and he eventually simmered down. Towards the end of the game, he again ordered me to clean the plate, which I ignored as I hash just cleaned the plate after the last half inning. He then said "fine, I'll do it myself!" and came towards me attempting to grab my brush out of my ball bag... Should I have EJed him and if so, at what point. Also, what could I have done differently to avoid all of this?