Face Paint...

[VAUmp]

Are players allowed to "paint their face" with eye black under Fed Rules?  I know in football they are only allowed to have a single stripe underneath their eyes.  I umped a game yesterday where about eight guys looked like the Ultimate Warrior.  It really looked kinda stupid.  I'm floored that the coaches allow this stuff.  But anyway, is there a rule against it?  What about for a pitcher?  

[scrounge]

Unless your state has added their own rule, they sure are. And for a pitcher, it just comes under the existing, if you judge it to be distracting provision. Unless he uses mirrored paint, I'm not messing with it. They want to look like clowns, have at it.

[UmpJM]

No rule against it.

 

No rule against stupid either.

 

JM

[cyclonehokiece]

I know when I was in Iowa, they ruled it unsportsmanlike.  But Virginia has not done likewise, so let it go.

[Umpire in Chief]

North Carolina deemed it intimidation 2 years ago. Must be a single horizontal line directly below the eyes.

[bam]

Was that ruled from behind the pitcher?

[th3]

i think NJ did the same thing this year..

[LMSANS]

i think NJ did the same thing this year..

I don't think so.  There was nothing in the POE.

[th3]

Larry  - we (North Jersey) get a newsletter from our association (NJSBUA) and they said that "per NJSIAA policy, only one straight line or strip of eye black is permitted under each eye" and the mentioned it on our 1st interpeetation meeting

[UmpJM]

th3,

 

So, now that we've been relieved of the responsibility to inspect bats and helmets, NJ wants you guys officiating the players' MAKEUP?

 

Sheesh.

 

JM

[Thunderheads]

th3,

 

So, now that we've been relieved of the responsibility to inspect bats and helmets, NJ wants you guys officiating the players' MAKEUP?

 

Sheesh.

 

JM

Silly I concur .... but we have to make sure they're not wearing jewelry, ....what's the diff?

[scrounge]

th3,

 

So, now that we've been relieved of the responsibility to inspect bats and helmets, NJ wants you guys officiating the players' MAKEUP?

 

Sheesh.

 

JM

Silly I concur .... but we have to make sure they're not wearing jewelry, ....what's the diff?

 

At least there's a plausible safety-related reason for no jewelry...no one's going to get their facepaint caught on something sliding into a base.

[Thunderheads]

 

th3,

 

So, now that we've been relieved of the responsibility to inspect bats and helmets, NJ wants you guys officiating the players' MAKEUP?

 

Sheesh.

 

JM

Silly I concur .... but we have to make sure they're not wearing jewelry, ....what's the diff?

 

At least there's a plausible safety-related reason for no jewelry...no one's going to get their facepaint caught on something sliding into a base.

understood, ....reiterate the first word in my previous post ....... 'silly'

[Stan W.]

North Carolina deemed it intimidation 2 years ago. Must be a single horizontal line directly below the eyes.

PA is the same.....

[umpstu]

These are high school kids. Let them have their fun if it's not harming anybody. Had a kid last Friday with the initials of a recently deceased classmate in his eye black, a trajic case of the classmate driving while intoxicated. A small school, close class.

 

The jewelry rule, really have a hard time tossing a kid for wearing an I love boobies wrist band. My dog has gas and it is killing me. GROSS!!!!!!!!!

[yawetag]

At least there's a plausible safety-related reason for no jewelry...no one's going to get their facepaint caught on something sliding into a base.

 

The only thing they'll hurt is their pride... in about 20 years when they're looking through old yearbooks.

[Richvee]

Yes, NJ has issued a statement as th3 has said. Personally, I can't wait to tell the first face-painted kid I see to go wash his face. 

[grayhawk]

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[bam]

Kids do so many other things to piss me off, I can't see getting uptight about face paint.  I try not to look at them anyway.

[BalkHawk]

^^^lol. thanks jocko, for fixing bam's avatar.

[Richvee]

Kids do so many other things to piss me off, I can't see getting uptight about face paint.  I try not to look at them anyway.

Yeah, kids do a lot of stupid stuff that we can just shake our heads at. . So when the state makes a rule that allows me to tell the kid that what he's got on his face not only looks stupid, it's also illegal, I'm surely going to take full advantage of it! 

[Jocko]

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Who's Intimidated now?