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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
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?
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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?
Fri Jul 17, 2009, 09:41am
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