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"...Backman comes out to argue, probably to keep his player from getting more than the ejection..."
This is standard and quite understandable for a coach to be doing...but a class act defending your player doesn't need the F Bomb language and tantrums display...
"...and the umpire said, "You can read it in my f&*king report."..."
I didn't see/hear that in the video (I'll go back and watch it a 3rd, 4th time).
However, an umpire responding like that is also stooping to a low level and unneedfully could be pressing the coach's buttons (and putting others in jeopardy by setting off on the field of play an on-edge person like Backman). Such an umpire (as already has been said) is deserving of reprimand & fine...
Addendum 10 minutes later: I went back and looked again at the video, didn't see or hear anything from the plate umpire indicating the F word. I just heard "It's in my report." AGAIN, I think that field umpire did a superb job getting Backman to leave the field and keep the game going (I'm learning a lot from him)...
Last edited by cookie; Fri Dec 24, 2010 at 03:03am.
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