OT: MiLB "Coach" gets "Ejected".
Little comedy for the morning board on what will probably be a slow news day.
Kalamazoo Growlers are a MiLB (whatever that is) team that had a fun time with a "coach" of theirs getting ejected.
http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=27210625
Bringing it more Michigan related: What is your favorite memory of a Michigan Basketball coach getting tossed? I really can't think of many, except recently watching John Beilein getting two technicals against Penn State this year and wondering what on earth can't happen now a days.
This sideshow will get old fast. He’s no Eddie Gaedel.
I got ejected in a high school tournament game I was coaching when I was a younger coach. I asked the referee if that was a whistle or a pacifier? He immediately blew the whistle and T'd me up. I thought it would be a good response to say "well you answered that question; pacifier by how much you've been sucking."
Safe to say my AD was not happy when the friend of his (the ref) called him personally to ask if an asshole like me really works for him.
(trying to politely mask my incredulity)
MiLB = Minor League Baseball
Yeah that one didn't really take a leap of imagination to figure out.
I was confused because they aren't a minor league team, at least not how they are typically thought of. Kalamazoo plays in an amateur league, using college players.
Michigan Linebacker?
Middle Lebanon?
Mi Loca Bisabuela?
Minor Libido?
I’m going with Minor Language Barrier.
I type MiLB in the Google machine and it tells me exactly what it is.
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I should have just laughed and kept moving on. I became who I didn't want to become.
Ah, so you're not only so much of a dumbass that you can't use Google you're also an asshole when someone calls you on it.
**Edit**
Well props on coming around and realizing the mistake, downvote removed
I'm sorry I missed it.
I got thrown out of a little league game once..... my parents were not proud of me, I wasn't proud of me...
the ump made a bad call, the runner going from 1st to 2nd actually ran into the grass to avoid my tag, he should have been called out. I should have just thrown the ball to first.
lesson learned.
MiLB is minor league baseball. ESPN got this wrong though as the Kalamazoo Growlers play in the Northwoods League which is a collegiate summer league. A few Michigan guys play for the Traverse City Pit Spitters who is also in that league.
Didn't Beilein get ejected when TV Teddy got in his face? I remember that being the only time I've ever seen Beilein really lose his shit on anyone.
It wasn't TV Teddy. TV Teddy doesn't ref the B1G anymore. But, yes, he got into a heated discussion with a ref and got double T'd.
After I tell everyone to get off my lawn, I just have to say the idea of having a 5 year old throwing a tantrum "in fun" is not a great look. Go ahead and neg away if you wish, but I loved the mound visit. Why in the world would you teach a little kid to throw bats and balls on the field? I know, just get off my lawn.
I understand the point you're trying to make. However, it's more of a parody than a teaching moment, assuming the kid already knows right from wrong.
I'll get off your lawn now as long as you throw my ball back over the fence.?
It seems like a pretty strange way to entertain yourself, but people like pro wrestling so...
By having a kid parody adult actions, foolish or otherwise?
...Okay
Yeah. Sitting around watching a 6 year old pretend to be a pissed off adult is weird. Were it not weird, do you think ESPN would be posting a video of it?
And no, a six year old doesn't know right from wrong.
you must not have kids. it's fucking cute and hilarious
you probably hate puppies and kittens too
Hopefully that kid never finds a youtube video of Wally Backman.
WARNING: Very NSFW language throughout
That was awesome ... new favorite manager.
My two absolute favorite parts of that video are him saying "let's go get a beer" and telling the other catcher to get out of the way so he could throw more bats on home plate.
Here's another for your viewing pleasure - Augie Garrido was a great coach but a real jerk.
Earl Weaver had a few good ones and here's one with every word in all its NSFW glory:
I totally get it and I'm as big as anyone on teaching kids the right reactions to adversity. That said, I don't think that's what's happening here. At that age he's playing dress-up and pretend and learning those actions by rote. Kids are good at separating the pretending from the real world. If he's learning anything, it's how to play a role on stage.
My favorite Michigan-related ejection was at the 2002 hockey regional at Yost when Blizzard, the Saint Cloud mascot, got ejected for taking out Brandon Rogers in the pregame huddle, provoking backup goalie Kevin O’Malley to charge straight through a ref and attack the mascot as it stepped off the ice.
It says something about that game that Blizzard’s attack on Rogers was only something like the fifth-wildest thing that happened in that game.
I got kicked out of a Gus Macker. But then a speedy appeal to a Super Buster got me reinstated for the next game.
In case you didn't click through, the "coach" is a 6 year old kid, and he does a pretty funny job of play acting the classic baseball manager meltdown - tossing bats and balls, kicking dirt, etc. I think it's all in good fun, something to make the event a little more exciting. The Growlers accomplished what they meant to, I think.
In case you didn't click through, the "coach" is a 6 year old kid, and he does a pretty funny job of play acting the classic baseball manager meltdown - tossing bats and balls, kicking dirt, etc. I think it's all in good fun, something to make the event a little more exciting. The Growlers accomplished what they meant to, I think.
Kind of a "cool story bro" moment here, but since you asked.....My favorite ejection memory was watching my HS baseball coach get ejected after a bizarre call. With a runner on 3rd, our pitcher threw a wild pitch that hit a post on the backstop and came almost directly back to the catcher. The runner was out by a mile at home, and the ump called it a balk for "deceiving the runner". He awarded the runner 1 base which meant he scored the go ahead run.
Our coach was a big guy and absolutely ripped and an intimidating guy to begin with, so when he went berzerk he got a quick (if unwarranted) hook. After he got tossed he kicked dirt at the ump for 30 seconds or so, told him he was a disgrace to the game and to learn the fucking rules. Then he went back to the dugout, pulled out a rule book, and threw it at the ump. He refused to leave the stadium and sat directly behind home plate basically daring the ump to make a bigger scene and force him from the stadium. The ump initially said the game wouldn't resume until he left the stadium, but our coach told him he was only punishing the kids so he let the game proceed. In an odd twist, our 2 assistant coaches could not make the trip with us because of a family issue, so our (ejected) coach continued to send me (a player) signals from the stands and I acted as head coach on the field. Just a weird situation all around.
As much as this makes our coach sound like a tool, this was WAYYY out of character for him and I've known him for 20+ years and never heard of another incident like it. That bizarre call just set him off.
Isn't MiLB an actonym for Mom 'd like to B***?
Mom I'd Like To Buy a nice seafood dinner and and never call her again.
I was coaching my daughter's 10-12 year old softball team. After a tough inning for our pitcher, she walked a few, I said "Hey blue, you got to call it both ways". He told me that he didn't want to hear another word out of me. I really hadn't been chirping much. I replied "Roger That" and he kicked me out. Had to go sit in the vehicle for the rest of the game.
Worse, I drove an 85 CJ7 at the time and had the top off and it was a 90+ degree day in North Carolina, so I couldn't even run the air.
When I still lived in Windsor and was playing in a men's slo pitch league I got tossed for swearing. I hit a lazy pop fly and ran it out and was half way to 2nd when the ball was caught. After it was caught I said mother F'er under my breath and with my back to the ump... As I'm walking back to the bench the ump yells "number 35 your done for swearing!". Not one person on our bench heard me and the catcher from the other team told me after the game that he was standing next to the ump the whole time and he couldn't even hear what I said...
I was assistant coaching my little brother’s 13-14 yr-old summer recreational baseball team. The ump didn’t have any clue what or where a strike zone was, and both teams were getting frustrated. My buddy, our head coach, got on the ump, telling him it didn’t matter where the strike zone was, as long as it didn’t keep changing with every pitch. Finally the ump had enough and tossed him. The other coach came out, shook my buddy’s hand, and their team and parents gave him a standing ovation as he jogged off to the parking lot. That ump didn’t work our league again the rest of the summer.
That looked totally spontaneous.