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Originally posted by greymule
Anyway, the player called out went ballistic but managed to stay in the game.
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How????? I've been known to let people squawk at me; but as soon as you start yelling and flapping your arms, you're taking an early trip to the parking lot. No ballistics on my field unless it's a softball traveling off of a bat
Some umpires are even stricter about this than I am: they don't allow any dissention whatsoever, particularly from players. But I realize that some folks may not like some of my calls. Fine. Squawk all you like -- that's part of the game. Just don't turn violent or aggressive on me, and don't cuss at me or anyone else in the process.
From everything I've seen in my limited experience, if you let people like this get away with the first instance of aggression, it's gonna happen again: usually sooner than you'd like.
I'm glad they banned him, though