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re: What's the "Magic Word" Managers/Players use to get Tossed?
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:05 am to Grit-Eating Shin
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:05 am to Grit-Eating Shin
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(Not saying you're wrong, but I just find it an odd place to draw the line.)
Good, because im right
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:05 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Penis.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:06 am to TigerFanInSouthland
whenever the umps feelings are hurt
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:14 am to Pilot Tiger
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there is no magic word it's a figure of speech to imply that the manager has said something to get thrown out
Yeah I know, i can think of a million different things to say that would get me tossed, I'm essentially asking where they draw the line.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:15 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Saw Matt LeCroy get tossed at the little meeting at home plate before the game started.
Also, saw him get tossed after the first batter of the game. Dude hit an infield single and was safe by 5 feet. He runs across the field and lays in to the ump and gets tossed. When he walked past the opposing team's first base coach he winked at him. Guy was cracking up and asked "what the hell was that Matt?!" He said "just found out my wife is here, I'm outta here!"
Also, saw him get tossed after the first batter of the game. Dude hit an infield single and was safe by 5 feet. He runs across the field and lays in to the ump and gets tossed. When he walked past the opposing team's first base coach he winked at him. Guy was cracking up and asked "what the hell was that Matt?!" He said "just found out my wife is here, I'm outta here!"
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:19 am to bwallcubfan
You're going to the Hall of Fame? For what fricking up World Series?
Players and managers have also been ejected for bring a raincoat or umbrella on to the field while its raining.
Players and managers have also been ejected for bring a raincoat or umbrella on to the field while its raining.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 10:21 am
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:53 am to Keltic Tiger
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Earl Weaver, crusty old manager of the Orioles. After several innings of chirping to the home plate ump over ball & strike calls, he walked up to the ump, hands on his hips. "Mr. Ump, can I get tossed for thinking something?" Ump: "No". Weaver: "well, then, I think you are fricking horrible". Gone pecan.
I heard the same story during a Braves telecast back in the 1980s, but it was Gene Mauch who got tossed for telling the umpire what he was thinking.
And I seem to remember hearing that the magic word was "motherfricker". Think Ron Luciano, an ex-big league ump in the 1960s and 70s, put that in one of his books.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 10:59 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I ejected Chuck Hiller from an Appalachian League game in 1972 because he said to me, "Well then you're a horseshite umpire." I remember he had a shocked look on his face because I'm sure he didn't think that would get him ejected. 43 years later and with a lot more experience and maturity, I shouldn't have ejected him. I should have just said, "Maybe so, Chuck, but you're stuck with me for the rest of the game," or something similar. It's different in amateur ball than in pro ball, because you are with these guys day in and day out. They pretty much know what they can and can't say, and often an ejection is when they want to get thrown out and won't go back to the dugout or coach's box when you tell them the conversation is over. I once ejected a manager at the home plate meeting before the second game of a double header when he insisted on bitching about a call I made in the first game.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:18 am to TXTigerDad
On some days, with some umps, "Are you sure that was outside?" will do it.
But according to Jim Bouton in Ball Four, it's motherfricker.
But according to Jim Bouton in Ball Four, it's motherfricker.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:22 am to TigerintheNO
You're here for one reason: TO frick US!
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:26 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:31 am to TigerintheNO
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You're going to the Hall of Fame? For what fricking up World Series?
That is hilarious. They're both acting like 5 year olds.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:34 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I always like Gil McGregor's interpretation of how you get a technical in basketball (which I imagine somewhat carries over to baseball and such for ejections).
He said words that end in "-ing" are fine, but words that end in "-er" will probably get you in trouble.
He said words that end in "-ing" are fine, but words that end in "-er" will probably get you in trouble.
This post was edited on 6/3/15 at 11:37 am
Posted on 6/3/15 at 11:48 am to TXTigerDad
quote:Who was the manager?
I once ejected a manager at the home plate meeting before the second game of a double header when he insisted on bitching about a call I made in the first game.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 12:57 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
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It's hard to believe that they're that sensitive, considering their profession.
Most, if not all versions of baseball rules prohibit the arguing of ball/strike and out/safe calls. It has been established that it isn't technically arguing until the "discussion" is directed at the umpire, therefore it is all based on how the person choses his words. Once he uses the term "you" there is no doubt who his argument is directed at, therefore he is in violation of the rule which spells out that the "penalty" shall be ejection.
Posted on 6/3/15 at 1:10 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Motherfricker or cocksucker does the trick unless the ref knows the coach is trying to get the boot
Posted on 6/3/15 at 1:15 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Can you imagine someone like Joe Girardi being mic'd up after being tossed, or Jim Leyland? That would be just great TV.
Posted on 6/4/15 at 10:32 am to ReauxlTide222
Lance Nichols, West Palm Beach Expos, 1973. Larry Parrish and Ellis Valentine played for that team.
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