New Twist

[carolinablue]

Here's a new twist on an old rat trick.

Edited August 29, 2010 by Umpire in Chief

[Nate]

Looking at the minor league umpire's stand point, this kind of stuff must get REALLY old.

[Ros@]

I'm wondering: How often those these kinds of things happen there?

[th3]

douchebag

(can i say that?)

[zm1283]

That manager used to be a MiLB umpire according to the Yahoo story where the video was posted.

[jjb]

EBay here it comes..

[sasmallen]

That manager used to be a MiLB umpire according to the Yahoo story where the video was posted.

And a AAA Umpire evaluator...

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=11756

[zm1283]

1. I thought the PU handled that very well. He gave him every chance to stay in the game, but you could tell the rat wanted to go.

2. It was hilarious that the PU refused to clean the plate off and F2 had to do it instead.

[Thunderheads]

Thanks for the Monday morning laugh!! That was great! :D

[Paperipper17]

I'm probably last one to the party, but I wonder how much of this is premeditated for publicity. I know it's a pain to draw fans to low level minor league games and many of them operate on a shoestring, so I wonder how many of these seemingly yearly tantrums are planned. I know a few years back, a few of my buddies went to see a Suns/Mississippi Braves game purely because the Braves manager had thrown his fit the year before.