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Originally Posted by BoomerSooner
With regard to the ejection issue that I brought into the discussion, it comes from a situation I had this spring, where one team was displaying quite a bit of disgust with my strike zone. They started off fairly mild (the facial expressions, the shaking of the head), it grew a little by the 3rd (glares directed at me, occasional "you've got to be kidding me), and in the 4th grows to some decent chirping from the bench. After the 4th, I attempted some preventative officiating and let the coach whose team was complaining know that his teams dislike of my calls was closing in on a line that shouldn't be crossed (basically a warning to cut it out). Well, in the 5th, the 1st batter stikes out looking, second batter steps in and says before the first pitch "I guess I better start swinging now", takes a ball way outside and says "I really thought that was a strike". I gave him a quick warning and he then proceeds to swing at the next 3 pitches striking out on slider down and way outside. As he is heading back to the bench he yells back at me "Was that going to be a strike too?" and before I can answer gives the hand wave suggesting he doesn't care what I have to say. Considering I had warned the coach and then warned the player in question, who then showed me up by the way he asked the question, I dumped him. His coach had no complaints at all. This is what I'm talking about, not dumping players just for asking, that's fine by me.
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This is a different situation than what you mentioned in the OP. The OP questioned the batter asking where the pitch was. It read that you would EJ if they asked too often. I think the inclusion of the EJ comment was out of context and lead readers to believe you were being OOO.
In the sitch above, I wouldn't have let it get to the fourth inning - I would have issued a warning with the glares and "are you kidding comments." After that - dump the next cocky prick that even looks at you cross-eyed. Then you could have dumped your EJ player on his first comment.
"I guess I better start swinging now"
"Nope, but it's good advice for your substitute...Coach I need a batter, this player's no longer in this game."