How much input do umpires have in rule changes?

Warning/Ejection Protocol Rule 3-3-1 Penalty Pg. 28, 29

The rule has simply reverted back to the past years enforcement protocol

First minor infraction: Verbal warning!

Second minor infraction: Written warning and restricted to bench.

Third minor infraction: Ejection!

This rule change for the 2017 high school baseball season is a step backwards in reducing ejections.  I believe it allows small problems more time to fester into bigger problems.  

It sets up a dynamic for an additional irritating dialogue with a more than likely potentially difficult personality.  What are we as umpires constantly reminded?  Less communication the better.  

So now what are told, lets talk with and give the hot tempered, short fused coach a subtle verbal warning.  It's like adding three links to King Kong's ankle chain.  Thanks for all the help! 

This new revised old rule allows additional time for that special person to continue to see just how far they can continue to push and promote a bad situation.  Then when he has pushed his irritating personality to the limits and now it is run over into the stands or worse the players. Now they are confined to the dugout.  Where possibly they will continue their charming ways, because now as he sees it the umpire has had it out for him when the umpire first talked/scolded him in front of the fans.  

Lastly, if he does continue to escalate his anger, he ultimately will be ejected.

Last year's language had us go straight to confining the offender to the bench with his first offense.  At first glance this sounds a bit harsh.  It is. What it also is, it's effective.  The amount of problems I experienced last year compared to the past where nothing.  No ejections and I only had to sit one coach in the dugout.  

The demeanor from all the coaches was very much improved and I feel them knowing in the back of their minds that being a bit less agitated is worth not being stuck in a dugout. 

Changing a rule that benefits umpires game management and reducing ejections, especially at the high school level doesn't make any sense.  Play ball!www.baseballrulesinblackandwhite.com