Featured Minor Ejection - Jones & Ump Thurmond

[Lindsay]

A CanAm League ejection and bench-clearing incident precipitated by a balk & catcher's interference no-call featured an animated discussion between umpire Tyler Thurmond and Miners Manager Bobby Jones, much finger pointing, and a helmet thrown from the dugout at the home plate ump during, what...

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[Kevin_K]

This should be used in every umpire training class on how to not handle a coach's question and/or argument about a call/noncall.

While we do not know the particulars of the discussion, PU seems to make the situation worse at every opportunity to de-escalate it. Even if the coach was the aggressor, the optics of this interaction paint PU in a bad light.