My wife loves this forum. I now have somewhere to go and get things out, without yelling at her. I am so frustrated right now. I have stated on here before that my DD is playing in our local LL for a couple reasons. Her friends are playing, mound time before the tournament season, etc...I am her pitching coach and her TB coach (for this summer only). Now honestly, if I sound like "that parent", let me know. I can take it. There have been a few issues this season with her league and I have not been a part of a single one. Her coach for LL has ZERO experience and is a nice lady. She has asked me to help out when I can. I go to as many practices as possible and have helped out the team on numerous occasions. So now to the issue. Last night during a game, my DD is pitching against the best team in the league. Typical game for my DD. The other team scores a few runs on a couple grounders and dropped third strikes. No problem. Now my DD's team is LOSING 4-1. I sit during every game in the same place. I sit down the first base line, away from everyone. I honestly dont speak loudly or bad of anyone. I just enjoy the game. My DD absolutely looks at me during games for suggestions. If she gets ahead in count, she will look and signal for a specific pitch or signal me to suggest a pitch. Never a word said. All done through some hand motions form her or I. I would love her coach to actually call her pitches, but has no idea that there are anything more than strikes or balls. So in the top of the 4th inning, the umpire calmly walks out to my DD and tells her if she looks over to where I am sitting, he will call illegal pitch. If she does it again, he will eject her from game. Now I visibly see something is wrong with DD. She motions her coach out and in tears, tells her what the ump said. Coach runs over to me and says What do we do? I say no problem, ask her if she wants to try and call the game. She asked if I would call from dugout for her. I go into the dugout (last place I want to be) and now find myself calling every pitch. So we go from DD looking over a couple times a hitter to me calling every pitch from dugout. My biggest problem is that is DD's coach didn't have an issue with it, why would a LL umpire put a 12 YOA girl in tears during a rec LL game? BTW, been doing this all season (20 games). I know in TB you can pretty much signal from parking lot if you want to. I am not as up to date on the LL rules. Maybe it is in there. The field ump said something about having to take the sign from the catcher. I said if he could show me the rule in the book, I would buy it. He said he never carries a book to the field. Anyway, thats my two cent rant. Thanks for letting me get that out. My wife thanks you as well.