Agreed. I coach a High School varsity team and it drives me nuts when the umps don't know the rules. The other day we had runners on second and third and hit a sac fly. After our runners moved up, the other team decided to appeal at third base. The team let the umps know they were appealing and the pitcher toed the rubber and then threw to third. He overthrew the third baseman and we sent our guy home from third to score. The umps did not allow the runner to score citing that it was a dead ball. That, of course is incorrect. Our arguments were to no avail.