- Sep 5, 2012
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I've seen a lot of crazy things over the years, especially in rec where they are still learning the game.
Bases loaded, 2 outs & ball four to the batter. The runner on 3B proceeds to HP but never touches the plate & goes to the dugout. I see it. The HC for the defense sees it. The parents behind the backstop see it. The HC tells his catcher to appeal the runner. I call her out & inning over. Of course, here comes the opposing HC to argue the call. He asks his player if she touched HP & of course she says that she did. I tell the HC that it was ball 4 & I literally have nothing else to do except watch the runner touch home!
R1 on 1B, 0 outs. Batter hits a pop up to short left center that drops in. R1 heads to 2b & stops. The outfielders weren't hustling after the ball & the BR was thing 2 bases all the way. She arrives at 2B & realizes that R1 is still there. She then returns to 1b. That should have been the end of it but here come the HC for the defense to the BU (I was the PU) demanding that an automatic out be call for 2 runners occupying the same base at the same time. The BU was pretty new & immediately flustered so I headed out there to explain to the coach that there was no such rule that resulted in an automatic out & that the correct runner had to be put out before returning to their correct base. The HC then proceeded to get personal which resulted in him being finished for the day. Two minutes later the asst. HC comes over to me prior to the resumption of play, shoves her smart phone in my face with something she pulled up that says, "Two runners cannot occupy the same base." That's all it said. Nothing else. No effect...... Nothing about the result of the play. I could've thrown her out as well for that act but she was new to the game & that would've resulted in a forfeit. I took pity on her & just told her, smh, to get that out of my face & go back to the bench.
BTW, I saw the same HC 2 weeks later & asked him if he reviewed the rule book. He told me that he didn't need to read no stinking rule book! I've subsequently had to throw him out of 2 other games for having a reckless mouth. he's very careful now & says as little as possible!
Now that I think about it, there are a lot of rec coaches who I literally had to coach while officiating who are now H.S. HC's. A lot of them have forgotten from whence they came.......
Bases loaded, 2 outs & ball four to the batter. The runner on 3B proceeds to HP but never touches the plate & goes to the dugout. I see it. The HC for the defense sees it. The parents behind the backstop see it. The HC tells his catcher to appeal the runner. I call her out & inning over. Of course, here comes the opposing HC to argue the call. He asks his player if she touched HP & of course she says that she did. I tell the HC that it was ball 4 & I literally have nothing else to do except watch the runner touch home!
R1 on 1B, 0 outs. Batter hits a pop up to short left center that drops in. R1 heads to 2b & stops. The outfielders weren't hustling after the ball & the BR was thing 2 bases all the way. She arrives at 2B & realizes that R1 is still there. She then returns to 1b. That should have been the end of it but here come the HC for the defense to the BU (I was the PU) demanding that an automatic out be call for 2 runners occupying the same base at the same time. The BU was pretty new & immediately flustered so I headed out there to explain to the coach that there was no such rule that resulted in an automatic out & that the correct runner had to be put out before returning to their correct base. The HC then proceeded to get personal which resulted in him being finished for the day. Two minutes later the asst. HC comes over to me prior to the resumption of play, shoves her smart phone in my face with something she pulled up that says, "Two runners cannot occupy the same base." That's all it said. Nothing else. No effect...... Nothing about the result of the play. I could've thrown her out as well for that act but she was new to the game & that would've resulted in a forfeit. I took pity on her & just told her, smh, to get that out of my face & go back to the bench.
BTW, I saw the same HC 2 weeks later & asked him if he reviewed the rule book. He told me that he didn't need to read no stinking rule book! I've subsequently had to throw him out of 2 other games for having a reckless mouth. he's very careful now & says as little as possible!
Now that I think about it, there are a lot of rec coaches who I literally had to coach while officiating who are now H.S. HC's. A lot of them have forgotten from whence they came.......
