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Originally posted by luv baseball:
VHSL meeting has the coaches AND umpires in it. Coach ignorance feels pretty weak on this one to me.
My point is breaking the rules is a coach/player issue and not an umpire issue. It put this in the same catagory as ducking into pitches, roll blocks at second base or running outside the running lane at 1st base.
Clearly all violations that coaches either teach or wink at. It ain't cheatin if you don't get caught and then when you do..whine about the lousy umps.
Nobody is whining about umpires, lousy or not. They are getting paid to do a job and they blunder this rule as much as anyone else. My original point is that the umpires can be more proactive in this phasing in process.
Example: Umpire sees a kid approach an at bat with a illegal bat...maybe the ump missed in pregame inspection...maybe the 15yo kid forgot to put in for inspection...instead of ejecting the player, merely tell him the bat is not allowed and take it out of play. Is that so difficult?