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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4728219, member: 833"]
I had one other bad coach in Babe Ruth.  The coach wasn’t so bad but his kid was kind of a jackass and picked on the younger kids like me.  It always bugged me that the coach didn’t do anything about it.

Anyway, one day we are playing and the jackass kid says “the ump is hammered”.  The coach starts to watch the umpire, and maybe two batters later, pulls the team off the field and says the umpire has to leave.  The umpire was well known in town, and it was the 80’s so someone being drunk in the afternoon wasn’t exactly unprecedented.  My mom often told me she and her friends didn’t make it through all our boring baseball games with coffee in her thermos, but she wasn’t umpiring the game.

Demanding the umpire leave was a big deal.  The umpire got indignant, my coach wouldn’t back down, and now the other coach had to pull his team or he would look like a jerk.

The umpire finally left, a dad from the stands called the rest of the game, and I actually had a lot more respect for the coach and even his jackass kid.
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