Bryce Harper tossed from JCWS

He earned the ejection, you can't draw the line in the dirt to show up the ump. Ball looked low and outside but you can't tell what he said when walking away either.

the third strike call was beyond ridiculous. Wow, not even close. A call that bad is almost baiting him to get ejected.

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The call was bullshite. I've seen players do worse than putting a line in the dirt. If that's all he did, along with a comment like "this is a bit off the plate", then the ejection is bogus.

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Nah...can't show up the ump. The ump did the right thing.

He went about it the wrong way, sure. I'm still sticking with, if all he did was draw that line, it's still a bullshite reason to eject someone.

If the ump did it because the guy "showed him up" by drawing a line where the ball crossed, then the ump has ego problems, and doesn't need to call any more games.

The moment that you can't question a call in sports is when the umps have become too big a part of the game. Everyone knows arguing balls and strikes will get you tossed. But he didn't argue.

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If the ump did it because the guy "showed him up" by drawing a line where the ball crossed, then the ump has ego problems, and doesn't need to call any more games.

The moment that you can't question a call in sports is when the umps have become too big a part of the game. Everyone knows arguing balls and strikes will get you tossed. But he didn't argue.

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Bottom line, you can't be disrespectful to the ump. This will get you ejected 10 times out of 10. Agree or disagree, it'll get you ejected everytime.

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Yet another umpire who is now looking for a publicist

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wow

Good call he deserved to be tossed. He is not bigger than the game. Period. You cannot argue balls and strikes and you cannot kick up dust at the umpire.

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drawing a line where the ball crossed

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Didn't Brian Jordan talk about this while he was doing LSU's game this past weekend? He said in one of his first games he did that to an ump and got tossed. When he went back to the dugout, Ozzie Smith told him this isn't the NFL. That will get you tossed everytime.

I'll stick with my opinion of the ejection being the wrong call. I am a league director for a baseball program and in charge of officials. If one of my umpires ejected a kid for that action they would have disciplined. Not fired or suspended, but just talked to about the situation and what warrants an ejection. There's a difference between drawing a line outside the strike zone and walking away and standing there complaining about the call. The kid walked away. Now if the kid would have opened his mouth at anytime while walking away or drawing the line then yes he's got to go. Arguing balls and strike is grounds for automatic ejection, but as I said in my opinion he did not stop and tell the umpire anything. That video was inconclusive.

I don't care what he said other than cursing. What he said, he said in passing while walking away, without even looking at the ump, and more just swiped at the dirt.