- Feb 3, 2014
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During one of our U12 TB games today a completely bizzar set of events transpired with the base umpire. In between pitches our short stop calls time out and comes running into the dugout crying her eyes out. She proceeds to tell the coach that the umpire came up behind her, put his hand on her braided ponytail, strokes her hair and proceeds to tell her what pretty hair she has. The girl was obviously pretty shaken. Coach questions the ump about what happened, ump gets snippy and threatens to run the coach. Coach doesn't back down and insists the ump remove himself from the game. Ump continues to argue and states that he is an old man (60-65 guessing) and meant nothing sexual by it. Coach insists he be removed and reluctantly ump walks off the field. Home plate ump then engages the coach and defends his counterpart stating they are best friends and his intentions were misconstrued. After 10 min, the game resumes with a new base ump.
I am pretty sure that an ump making any kind of contact with a player is highly frowned upon in any league. I know my opinion on how far out of line this guy was, I would like to hear a few more. Thoughts?
FYI, To my knowledge the ump was allowed to continue working his next game. Although I am not sure how much if anything the tournament director knew about what happened.
I am pretty sure that an ump making any kind of contact with a player is highly frowned upon in any league. I know my opinion on how far out of line this guy was, I would like to hear a few more. Thoughts?
FYI, To my knowledge the ump was allowed to continue working his next game. Although I am not sure how much if anything the tournament director knew about what happened.