After last weekend Ejection, no problem ... steveshane67

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by steveshane67

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?

1) If he didn't, he wouldn't be doing his job properly. The warden runs the asylum, not the inmates.

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?