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“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,” National Little League spokesman Lance Van Auken said in an e-mail to The Associated Press Friday.

You have got to be kidding me. Isn’t using “code” the whole purpose of the 3^rd base coach, the 1^st base coach, the pitcher, the catcher . . . practically everyone on the baseball diamond? A rub on the chest, a tap on the thigh, a stroke of the arm . . . isn’t this all “using a language other than English?”

Of course, “illegal instructions” can only be given in Spanish. What kind of “illegal instructions” is the guy even talking about? Did he think the player on first base was literally going to steal 2^nd base? Was he going to shoot someone? Did he strip people of their right to unionize? What can be so “illegal” in a game of Little League Baseball? Spare me.

It’s times like this where I am glad I live in a city where issues of racial and ethnic politics are progressive.