Posted on 06/02/2007 3:07:17 PM PDT by NapkinUser
The manager of a minor league baseball team lost his cool and maybe some of his sanity Thursday during an on-field tirade in which he uprooted bases and covered home plate completely in dirt.
Phillip Wellman, manager of Atlanta Braves affiliate Mississippi Braves, apparently had enough of the umpires, springing out of the dugout to let his temper flare. After a nose-to-nose argument with the home plate ump, Wellman completely covered home plate in dirt. He then made his way up the third base line, where he ripped third base out of the dirt and hurled it into the outfield.
As if that wasn’t enough retribution for Wellman, the manager then got on all fours and crawled toward he pitcher’s mound like a special ops commando, grabbing the pitcher’s rosin bag, holding it to his mouth and tossing it toward the home plate umpire as if it were a grenade.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Yeah, but the story is that once in the good old days a clueless photographer showed up at the clubhouse wanting a photo of the Robinson brothers...Brooks and Frank! ;-)
Top that!
Cheers!
There are books of malaprops from Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel...
Great find.
For anybody else with a short attention here’s a one minute “best of” version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8oiEz53YE
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