No Spanish on the Field.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/07/29/ll.spanish.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

METHUEN, Mass. (AP) -- Coaches on a Little League team filed a protest with the league after an umpire ordered the players to stop speaking Spanish during a state tournament game this week.

Coaches said the order demoralized the Methuen players and cost the team the game.

"This never should have happened," coach Chris Mosher told the Eagle-Tribune newspaper. "These are 14-year-old kids who should not have to deal with any of this, especially in Little League baseball."

National Little League spokesman Lance Van Auken said there's no rule against players speaking Spanish or any other language on the field. But he said it's too late to reverse the decision or the outcome of the game.

"It appears the umpire was concerned that the coach or manager may have been using a language other than English ... to communicate potentially 'illegal' instructions to his players," Van Auken said in an e-mail to The Associated Press Friday. "The umpire simply overstepped his authority, and there was no malicious intent."

Mosher said the incident happened Tuesday night during a Junior Little League game against Seekonk in Lakeville.

Methuen was winning 3-1 when assistant coach Domingo Infante instructed the pitcher in Spanish to try to pick off a runner at second base. After the unsuccessful attempt, the umpire called time-out and spoke with a Little League official who was at the game. The unidentified umpire then decreed that only English could be spoken.

"All I could hear was, 'We cannot allow this,"' Mosher said. "At this point I was baffled why we could only speak English."

Mosher said he challenged the ruling, but the Little League official said it would stand. Infante then left the game in protest, which Mosher said demoralized his pitcher and catcher, who speak little English. Methuen lost the game 10-6, though the team remains alive in the tournament.

Van Auken said the loss can't be reversed because a formal protest must be filed during the game. He told the Eagle-Tribune the umpire won't be punished.

"You're talking about human beings," Auken said. "Human beings do make mistakes."
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Damn language hacks in the Matrix.

So their team gave up seven more runs and lost the game due to the fact that the pitcher and catcher spoke little English?

Let me guess how they blew their commanding 3-1 lead: Seven opposing players got on base and, not knowing how to possibly pick off a guy without using a verbose approach to the process, they threw the ball into centerfield repeatedly or allowed the guy to steal his way all the way around the bases. Am I close????

I guess John Rocker has found a new job.

Originally posted by FeceMan
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Coaches said the order........cost the team the game.

Actually, my earlier post was wrong. They gave up nine additional runs due to not being able to speak much English.

Let me think of ways speaking little English could have attributed to blowing a 3-1 lead and losing 10-6 😑

Let's just assume for all realistic purposes that the coaches and trainers had not bothered to teach them words such as "out," "strike," or anything baseball-related.

1st 4 runs - A second baseman yells "I got it!" with the bases loaded. And the pitcher goes "Wha---????" and they knock heads and knock each other out. The runners go all the way around the bases because a player picks up the ball and, not being able to read much English, has to get a translater to find out if it's a baseball or not.

Runs 5-7 - During the seventh-inning stretch, they misinterpret “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” as “There is a red Chevy Corsica in the parking light with its lights on,” causing two players to miss 2 full innings.

Runs 8-10 - The pitcher, having zero ability to throw out a runner without speaking words, balks in three runs as a result of his vocal cords not being warmed up.

my two cents... that sucks, this is the Damn US of frickin A...we should be able to talk the way we want... but id write more, the only thing is Botankus.. that chick in your sig is hot... that is all

Originally posted by a1hsauce
the only thing is Botankus.. that chick in your sig is hot... that is all

You had better watch it.......that's a picture of my parents that you're talking about.

😕 peace be with you

Ese Umpire es un pendejo y estupido.

hahahaha "there is no speaking spanish in baseball!"

Originally posted by WindDancer
Ese Umpire es un pendejo y estupido.

Que?...Que dijo? 😕

Originally posted by roguegirl15
😄 Damn right.You don't see other people going around telling people that they have to speak english-it's a free country.Baseball would lose some good players and the respect of spanish speakers if it were like that.We don't need that! Ban stupid peopleban.(ok,maybe not they'd have to ban me!)cry

Is quite obvious that umpire doesn't know a thing about baseball. Many Spanish speaking countries love Baseball. Like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Venezuela just to name a few. No spanish in baseball is plain dumb.