This sounds like a highly dysfunctional Rec league, perhaps a text book case of what to do. In our league, the coaches are competitive but not combative. We all work together to ensure fair competition and a fun experience for the kids. Sounds like you might want to work toward getting people working towards a model that is about the kids, not the wanna-be, blow-hard, travel ball coaches you seem to have.
Guess maybe our rec is a little different but we use these rules and don't think anything of it...no continuous batting order etc., we stop that stuff at 8U, although we do use 5 run per inning rule (so I guess we do make concessions). If you think this guy has it rough try having 14 girls and having to play by these rules...that means 5 girls on the bench all the time. Yes you can EP two girls and I do sometimes when they all show up. Biggest problem is turning over your line up with 11 batters some games you only get through the line up twice.
Basically the EP lets you have an 11 player batting order then on defense you can basically sub out your EP with any of the defensive player as long as the batting order does not change, in other words if the player gets hurt your EP can't sub since while they can play defense they can't take the injured players place in the line up because as the EP they already have a place in the line up, if you did not have any subs your EP can play defense for the injured player but when the hurt players turn comes up in the line up that would be an out.
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