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Originally Posted by zm1283
Like someone else said, this is a pre-planned, premeditated act. I went to an umpiring clinic last fall and one of the instructors was a AA umpire for a few years. He said that Wellman did that stuff as a show for the fans and nothing else, and the umpires knew it. (I'm pretty sure he knew the umpires involved in that video) He also said Wellman left those guys a case of beer in their locker room afterward for "playing along".
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This reminded me of a great anecdote I read from Tim McClelland on the MLB.com site a couple years ago. It's the second question from the
bottom.
The image of Jack McKeon yelling and kicking dirt while carrying on a conversation about where to eat dinner is just something that stuck with me.