Dale Lopes of the Long Beach Black has posted a response to the ASA in regards to the controversial call in this past weekend’s So Cal ASA Alliance tournament.
To read the So Cal ASA website statement on the controversy, click here.
In response to the statement posted at the Cal ASA website, Lopes stated:
“Players have a duty for proper sportsmanship, but that does not give umpires the right to confront players. In the letter it states I was asked repeatedly by my team to leave the field and that was not the case at all. They as I do deserve to know why the call was made and a proper explanation of the call and we got neither.
In my opinion if you are going to hold players to a certain standard of conduct than the umpires in return should be held to that same standard. To whoever wrote this article, if you are going to call out names of players involved in this incident, and you are using their names in a negative aspect, you should also name the umpires involved and sign your name to this article.”
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