Dislike the umpire's call? Hit him in the face with a pitch

What is the appropriate response for a high school softball team that dislikes the quality of the umpiring? Hit him in the face with a pitch, apparently:

http://www.bogdi.com/girls-softball-team-doesnt-like-umpires-call-takes-action-video/

I don't know what school this is, but if I was the principal, the coach would be fired, the players suspended from school and the season cancelled. I don't care how bad the umpire's calls were, there's no excuse for that. If that pitcher or catcher are over 18, I don't see what's stopping the umpire from filing some kind of assault charge.

On a side note - that's a pretty badass field they're playing on! Replica Fenway? What HS does that?

 

Slacker son of a bitch got off easy. He was a terrible ump.

/93Devil

 

Oh, it was a girl throwing the ball. It couldn't have hit him hard.

 

To answer your questions, Rusty:

1) Assuming this is a recent video -- it was posted today, anyway -- this wouldn't be a high school team. It would be a club team. And there isn't any kind of sanctioning body overseeing clubs. (The USSSA supposedly is, but it doesn't do anything.)

2) The field looks like it's from the Big League Dreams chain that has facilities throughout California and now is in Arizona, Texas and Nevada too. That's their thing, replicas of all the classic stadiums.

 

So if it's a club team, can they be disciplined? I mean, my understanding is that club teams are basically mercenaries who can go to whatever tournaments will have them, right?

 

Copycats:

 

That's correct. I guess if it's bad enough, the tournament directors or the various circuits could ban the team, but those groups aren't in the business of turning away money. And the kids and/or coach could just resurface under a different name anyway.

 

LTL's absolutely right. They would be back on the circuit a week later -- especially if they were that intense.

I've been around a few of these AAU things. They like intense there.

 

At least put them through the trouble of having to do it and in constant fear of exposure. Suspend all their asses for a calendar year.

 

I would love to know the rest of the story on this call.

The bases are loaded and the pitch before this one was right down Broad Street, but called a ball and a run is walked home. How did the other runners get on base? Were they all walked on? This team did not do this off one bad call, and I do sort of respect the brass balls of the team doing this.

 

You should be decked for this comment.

 

Yeah!!! Fight the power!!!!

I think I am gonna grab my Daisy BB gun and storm the gates of the Pentagon. That will show them.