Being an umpire isn’t an easy job, I get it. You’re going to get yelled at a lot and you’re really only going to get noticed when you do something wrong, which has been happening a lot this MLB season.
But still, some of these guys are being a little too sensitive this season. Like the guy who stared down Madison Bumgarner earlier this year. Or the fella who almost confronted a Diamondbacks pitcher earlier this week.
The latest example of this came yesterday in Oakland when home plate umpire Mike Muchlinski had enough with A’s manager Mark Kotsay and quickly tossed him during a mound visit.
This happened right before the ejection:
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Then Kotsay went to the mound and seemed to wait for the ump to come out and then BOOM he got ejected in like a second.
Watch the very end of this video to see how quickly it happened. It’s pretty darn funny:
The umpire just walked over and ejected Mark Kotsay in the middle of a mound meeting pic.twitter.com/xxJcIj0fPC
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That ump’s aggressive ejection motion was so good. Dude tried to toss him into outer space!
Kotsay explained after that he was upset about one call that he thought should have been strike 3:
Mark Kotsay explains what happened to lead to his ejection from the game pic.twitter.com/aHoIXWcc3X
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