Batter's hands

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Originally Posted by mbyron

I had a minor bat throwing incident in FED game last week. Before I could say a word, here comes coach from the 3B box, asking for time as he goes by me (behind the plate), to yell at his player. I thanked him for taking care of it.

I'll beat you with one even better: I CALLED a batter out on strikes in the minors. He took his helmet and spiked it on the plate (he didn't say a word).

Good-bye!!

The first base coach came sprinting down the line screaming, "what did he do? What did he do? You can't toss him."

I was about to toss the assistant coach...when the third base coach/manager got down the line. I was bracing for an argument with the manager when he looked at his first base coach and said, "he spiked his helmet on home plate and stuck it up his (my) a$$."

The manager then promptly went into the dugout and chewed out his player stating that, "this organization doesn't tolerate that type of bush league stuff."

The first base coach came out the next half inning and stopped and told me, "sorry blue, I didn't see the spiked helmet."

It was hilarious. I was bracing for an argument with two base coaches, and rather watched the manager tell his assistant coach to cool down and then chewed out his player in the dugout before he hit the showers.

By the way, I was in no hurry to insist that the ejected player leave the dugout.