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Mike ... I agree with your sentiments regarding assistants, as long as they are assistants and not ASSistants. Surely if you were to change the original situation to the manager being suddenly "in the face" of the umpire, he was, if not already ejected (depending on this guy's definition of in his face), at least on very thin ice. There's no place for coaches acting this way.
OP - as to your local rule of eject and he's done for the season, I believe a penalty of that severity actually has a negative impact, in that umpires are not willing to enforce it. You yourself seem reluctant to eject for extremely ejectionable offenses, solely due to this rule. This should be revisited.
We have a similar local rule in football where they require a 15 yard penalty for certain actions by coaches - the result being that NO ONE calls this penalty, because the punishment doesn't fit the crime. If it was a 5-yarder, it would be called, and the actions the league wants to put a stop to would actually stop.
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"Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile." - Hall of Fame Pitcher Christy Mathewson
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