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Exactly
Idiot coach incites the players and the fans to also do idiotic things. The umpire that tolerates the initial behavior from the coach creates a heck-of-a-mess for himself and for other umpires that these now trained idiots will visit at future games.
Whatever you are willing to tolerate... is exactly what you will have.
Obviously the coach was wrong in the initial situation... and I might have ejected him right then; his purpose was obvious. The ejection can, and should, be just as obvious. To let things linger or build to higher levels now confuses the observer's understanding of specific penalty for specific actions.
Did he get ejected for arguing, for calling the umps stupid, for telling them he wanted to control them, for any myriad of other things ... or was it for his unsportsman-like action of yelling time to create a balk. I don't think a warning is necessary when the purpose is that obvious.
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