You won't believe this one
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042702428.html

Click on this link and read about a high school softball umpire who ejected a pitcher for smiling at him. Hmmmmmmmmm.............

Though the title makes it sound like a smile got the player ejected, the text of the article has the umpire mentioning pitcher's mocking attitude and "raising hands up in the air, an exasperated body language". Even her coach mentions her smirk.

I think we've all been in similar situations - - - both on the field and in seeing newspaper articles where the title is editorially slanted.

The one I regret not ejecting was a pitcher in the circle warming up for an inning who basically flipped me off. She pulled out a worn batting glove, exposed her middle finger through the hole and yelled, "Mom, I need a new glove, this one is torn."

Yeah, sort of funny... but definitely inappropriate. I should have tossed her.

What is this umpire doing conducting an interview with the paper? I always thought it was taboo to conduct post game interviews about on field situations.

Maybe when you've done 10,000 games you're allowed.

I have had a few pitchers who have done this. I warned the coach that continued displays like this would result in an ejection. I've never had to eject a pitcher for continuing to do this.

I want to know why shortly after the ejection the game was forfeited?

WHAT!!! The media slants the tag/head lines to grab the readers attention??????

Apparently, if the newspapers lived by "all the news that's fit to print", they would only contain obituaries and the comics :D