Iowa/Dayton

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by Spence

In the video I saw, it seems like the umpires were hesitant at first to get between the two coaches.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/m/con...tid=1688297742

In 20/20 hindsight,could this have been handled better by the umpires?

I am not going to question the umpire's actions here and I think that the actions of the League President were apprehensible but it's the Minor's people, what more do you expect?

Now if this were an amateur game such as we do, you have to ask yourself, "Well one of the managers has to cross the field to get nose to nose with the other and I am pretty sure what the "meeting" was going to be about." so I would probably dump the manager who is crossing the field because he is obviously not looking to resolve anything here. I know that a lot of people are asking why not dump F1 for throwing at batters. The problem is, you better be damn sure that F1 is in fact doing this because you will have to explain yourself either to an assigner or in the ejection report. Pitchers do loose control, although, from reading the report, I do not think that loss of control was the case here.