[BretMan]

Forgot about this one...

High school baseball game with two inner city schools pretty low on baseball experience. I call a third strike on a kid on an outside corner pitch. The kid turns around and starts arguing the call.

I said, "Batter, you need to go to your dugout". The kid keeps mouthing off, then draws a line in the dirt where he thinks the pitch was.

I must have been in a charitable mood that day. This is pretty much an automatic ejection any other day. But it was obvious that these kids didn't understand a lot about the game and I'm thinking he just doesn't know any better. Once more I say, "You need to get in your dugout NOW".

The kid gets this crazed look in his eyes, literally GROWLS, then draws his bat back like he's going to take a swing at me!

I eject him. He starts stomping around the field, screaming and cussing. Then he goes to the dugout, rips off his jersey, throws it out on the field and starts tossing around bats and helmets!

The kid is shirtless and starts coming back on the field. Several teammates grab him and are struggling to hold him back.

It was like the kid just snapped and was totally out of control. And all the while, his clueless coach is in the third base coaches box, standing there watching, doing nothing.

I look to his coach and say, "You need to do something with this kid RIGHT NOW!". The coach wanders over to the dugout and drags the kid to the gate and sends him to the bus, by himself, while the kid rants, raves and cusses all the way to the parking lot.

After my ejection report was filed, come to find out that the kid's AD tried to get a lenient suspension because the kid had "behavioral issues".

No $hit!