Rabbit Ears and Violent Dissaproval

[johnnyg08]

Originally Posted by lawump

I always knew that Paul O'Neil was a RAT, but he is now a King Rat. I just watched this Torii Hunter incident again at MLB.com. MLB.com's video is the New York Yankee's TV network's (YES) feed, of which Paul O'Neil is the analyst.

Here's what went on.

Torii gets tossed from the dugout. O'Neil goes on and on about how umpires shouldn't go after a player in the dugout when that player is clearly just "frustrated" ("I mean Torii's having a tough series...") and how its wrong for an umpire to go after a player in the dugout and "cause a player to come out onto the field."

To his credit, the play-by-play announcer said (to paraphrase), "Paul, to take (Ron) Kulpa's side, maybe Torii was yelling profanities at Kulpa from the dugout. I mean he wasn't even the one at-bat called out on strikes."

Paul's response? "Whatever."

What a freakin' maroon. So in Paul's world a player can do anything he likes, including cussing out an umpire..."as long as he's in the dugout."

I've read the phrase on here many, many times...it's not my quote, but I think it's appropriate here...

"Once a rat, always a rat"

There are several very good instances for dumping somebody...and more often than not, umpires are made out to be the bad guy for not tolerating obnoxious behavior/language from a player/manager. Not many umpires out there go hunting for ejections...I figure if an umpire in my association dumps somebody, there's probably been a pretty good reason for it.