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Yeah, I had the bases. And a LONG game it was with PU hanging out at the backstop between innings
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After thinking about it...
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SDS How many years did Big John say your umpiring set baseball back? You were lucky if it was not double digits. Didn't Big John say there were two leagues, the Big Leagues and the American League? |
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Now I have a couple questions for you 1) Did you eject the batter after he said "I can take as much time as I want"? 2) would it be reasonable to assume that the last thing a player/coach says/does before they are ejected is the cause of their ejection? 3) do most players know all of the rules? 4) is misquoting a rule an ejectionable offense? 5) where is the ejectionable offense here? |
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2) Usually, and that is why he was ejected, for mouthing off to the umpire. 3) Sadly, not even a few of the rules, but he was not questioning the rules, he was speaking in a manner that would have gotten him punched out if he talked that way to someone say, on the street, for example. You don't address authority figures that way without consequences. Words mean things. 4) No, but defying an order from the umpire to get in the box and hit most definitely is. 5) Telling an umpire how to do his job and not doing what the umpire lawfully directs you to do is an automatic ejection, what planet have you been living on where it isn't? |
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As I hear all the time on here, the umps job is to enforce all the rules as written, not to administer their own personal views on various situations. |
After the batter's demonstration of arguing balls and strikes, and then comes back with a comment like that. It had nothing to do with him refusing to get in the box. I guess only so much can be conveyed in writing for others to understand. I can imagine the actions of the batter as he is doing all of this as to say "I can do what I want and you can't tell me what to do." EJ time at that point. Get another batter who is really want to play the game and not be a jerk.
I have no problem with him being EJ. Next time, he will behave better towards the umpire. If he hadn't done all of his previous shenanigans, then I would wonder about the EJ. But, with his "golf swing" demonstration and saying something just to be a jerk, that calls for an appropriate EJ. Too bad, you seem to condone this type of behavior. |
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all he said was "i can take as much time as i want". he obviously didnt know the rules about the batter cant take as much time as they want. there was no "you cant tell me what to do attitude, only a simple misunderstanding of the rules" ill ask again, So lets assume a different situation, a batter steps out in between pitches, goes into some extended nomar readjusting/taking a few swings routine, the ump says something to the effect of "batter step into the box..." the batter says "hold on, im not ready yet" do you really expect the batter to be ejected here? |
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