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Originally Posted by Steven Tyler
Plate umpire handled the ejection rather clumsily.
He should have removed his mask, never turned his back, and never displayed any anger whatsoever. The less he says, the better. He should have been making sure coach was leaving the playing area. He was well within his rights to eject or restrict coach for arguing balls and strikes.
Do not move forward toward your aggressor. Move away. Anybody wonder why this is perceived as a head butt? I'm sure this ex-Marine had some words that added fuel to the fire.
Coach has his say and he basically ejected himself. Umpire should have shown more class in his ejection technique.
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Let cut the crap here. Next thing we will be saying is that the coach should eject with his left hand because it could have been interpreted as a strike, because he used his right. Quit nit-picking this to death, because the perfectionist's here probably would'nt have done much better.
The coach initiated, continued and elevated the entire incident to the point that he made contact 2 times before punching the official. He should be lucky that the mask wasn't used on him. And please don't try and argue that the official does not have a right to protect hisself.
Your the one that should be showing more class here and supporting an official that did an excellent job handling an out of control coach under circumstances far from ANY normal athletic competition. This was a HS game.
Could have , would have, should have....The coach was nothing but WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.