|
Fri Apr 28, 2006, 07:48pm
|
|||
|
|||
|
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.............
__________________
David 
|
|
Fri Apr 28, 2006, 09:32pm
|
|||
|
|||
|
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.
__________________
Dan
|
|
Fri Apr 28, 2006, 10:08pm
|
|||
|
|||
|
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.
|
|
Fri Apr 28, 2006, 11:03pm
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
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?
__________________
TBOGAB
|
|
Sat Apr 29, 2006, 09:01am
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
Apparently, if the newspapers lived by "all the news that's fit to print", they would only contain obituaries and the comics 
__________________
The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
|
 |
| Bookmarks |
|
|
Linear Mode
