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I am working a tournament in a certain area of some significance for that area. I am on the plate for the same team for the 3rd time in 3 days this time in an elimination game against a local rival. OBR. My Plate meeting went like this: "Good afternoon gentlemen, sorry you have to play each other before the championship game. Have your on-deck hitters help out with foul balls behind the plate. Unsportsmanlike behavior will not be tolerated. Good luck men." Score is 6-3 home, 1 out 5th inning of 7. Home team batter on 1-1 pitch squats down and ducks curve ball over the plate. Of course I immediately call strike. He grounds out to F6 the next pitch. 1B coach who has already been told by my 1B umpire why the strike was called and to calm down walks back down toward bench beside/behind me and yells loudly enough for stands to hear. "We need some consistency from you back here Blue!" I almost ejected him then, but instead loudly replied, "I really don't care what you think coach, get in the dugout." After telling his manager (who most everyone has trouble with in the tournament) what supposedly happened, the manager walks out of his dugout to where the two people running the tournament are, and spends the next next half-inning gesturing and complaining about me, while his team gives up 2 runs. Next inning, 1B coach walked around to go to 1B, and loudly says to me "Well, the good thing about this is once we are done here we are going to a league in (new town named) next year." I immediately responded: "Well, you can start heading that way right now!" and dumped him. Game ends later, 7 innings in 1:30 or so, team who had their assistant dumped wins 6-5. Q1: Was this a justifiable ejection, or was I a p***** d*** and several other things I was called by the coach after i dumped him? Should I just have ignored the comments? *********** <Postscript rant> After the game I and my crew head to the locker room, and I already know I'm not going to get my assigned game three hours later, the losers bracket final. One of the directors walks into our locker room, his first words were: "Who is working the game tonight? I am the only one who is, and I told him. Then I asked, "Do you want a report?" and I told him exactly what I typed above. Then he leaves. The game ends at 4:00. At 4:03 the assigner, who is at work an hour away, gets a call from the director saying "You need to call _____ and tell him he is off the game, and find a replacement." When the assigner said he was at work, he was told "This is your job, do it." I guess now it is okay to say or do anything you want if you don't like an umpire's call, especally since coaches think it's okay to run all over umpires and say anything they want to them while we quietly ignore their comments and actions. Most all of these people coaching have no training or understanding about the rules, how to complain about a call, deal with umpires, or control their kids. I won't go through the rest of the backstory, I just need to to know if I was too quick to eject in this game. </postscript rant> *************