93players wrote:We have all been there, on both sides. I do not mind the running out the minute or two, but anything more and it is the duty of the umpires to take control of the game. We have had catchers tell us that some umpires will whisper, we need some balls here to run out the clock. Now that is too far in my opinion. I also saw an umpire go and pull out a rule book when approached by a coach (on the losing side) to waste about 2-3 minutes. Personally, I have eally liked playing with coaches who do not play these games with the clock.
I too have never had a blue come up - on a 103 degree texas afternoon and say "Donnie, waste 3 minutes here somewhere, you still get a time out coming, and get this over with and get everyone out of the sun." Never happened - omg - so much bandwidth wasted.