You may have seen the recent viral video from a youth recreational league baseball game in Potlatch, Idaho, in which a teenage umpire named Jameson Morris was confronted by the head coach of one of the teams, who was upset about the music the opposing team was playing (Rob Zombie’s “Never Gonna Stop”).Morris, a senior at Potlatch High School, kept his cool as the adult coach continued his argument, calmly stating: “I have not heard a single inappropriate word. Coach, you’re either going back to the dugout or you can forfeit, that’s your choice.”The opposing coach refused to move off the field, so Morris tossed him, after which the coach took his entire team off the field and forfeited the game.The entire exchange was caught on video and went viral as another example of adults involved in youth sports acting inappropriately, and Morris’ calm under pressure.I recently spoke with Morris, who has been working as a recreational league umpire for four years and also stars for his high school’s baseball team, to get his perspective on the exchange and what life has been like as he’s become “internet famous.” I also spoke with Steffani Davis, the league’s umpire coordinator, about Morris and the responsibilities of youth umpires.I know you’ve been umpiring for a while now, Jameson. Had you ever dealt with a situation like this before?Not in this context. I’ve umped for four years and I’ve played baseball my whole life. You deal with people and parents yelling. Usually, I just let it blow over. I’ve been around baseball, so I know how it is to have a call go against you. I’ve had nothing over music before. It was definitely an interesting encounter. This whole thing is just interesting to me to see people’s views on it from reading the comments.Was that your first time throwing a coach out?It was my first time ever ejecting anybody! It’s hard for people to understand the small side of baseball. My coaches allow me to leave practice early to go ump games down at our field. It’s just rec ball, small ball, so I don’t deal with much.You stayed extremely poised and levelheaded. Is there anything in your background that helped prepare you for such a situation?What helped me the most is that I’ve grown up in a very tight-knit family, and I have a couple of older siblings who are a little less outgoing than me. I grew up an extrovert, being able to talk to anybody. I’m kind of a natural leader. It almost seemed more like a conversation at first (with the coach) and it started escalating. Having younger kids there made me try to keep my words peaceful compared to what they could have been.I’m the president of my school’s Associated Student Body, so I’ve dealt with speaking in front of hundreds of people lots of times. It’s natural for me to speak out on things I might see as not fair or not good. Growing up in a small town, I know everybody, I can have a conversation with everybody. I hope I’m pretty well liked in the community, and they’ve helped me to be the person I am.