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Jason Ingersol |
Baseball |
2018-04-19 |
Lehi |
In the bottom of the 5th inning, on a passed ball by the Uintah pitcher, the catcher short hopped the ball back to the pitcher as they tried to put out the runner coming home. After the play had fully stopped and we were starting to get back to our positions at the plate, a player from Lehi yelled to GET THE CATCHER A CUTOFF MAN! and his team mates started to laugh. I called time since there were other runners on base and looked over towards the dugout and coaches on buckets in the opening of the dugout and said, "shut it down, dont need to talk to the other team". At this point from the coaches box on third base side Jason blew up and started to yell at me to "never talk to his dugout" and that he could do his job, and to never talk to his players or his coaches. I then said fine, and told him to do it. He asked me "what?" And I told him to tell his dugout to knock it off. He then sarcastically told his dugout to knock it off, and then told me to worry about myself and to do my damn job and he would do his. I then gave him a verbal warning, told him he was done yelling and to stop. I Then pulled my card out to write it down. He said fine, but then stoked his dugout as I started to write it down. His dugout started to cheer loudly and laugh and clap. I asked him to shut it down, and he started to yell again that he wasn't going to tell them anything, that they were cheering for the game and I needed to worry about myself and do my job and worry about the game and let him take care of his team. At that point I told him if he wasn't going to stop he would be restricted. He said, again to do my job and worry about the game. I then restricted him to the dugout. He said WHAT loudly and I said again I was restricting him to the dugout. He came running in to me and told me I needed to explain to him again what I was doing. At this point my partner showed up behind us a few paces, and I told Jason again I had restricted him to the dugout. He yelled and asked what reason I had to do this. I told him because he had yet to shut up and stop talking even though I had warned him multiple times, that he wasn't controlling his team, and had been verbally warned and that frankly he was acting like a dick. He then got extremely close to me, close enough that his chest touched mine and his nose touched my face. He then screamed in my face and I told him he should stop spitting on me and to back off. He didn't, but continued right in my face and I told him he was still spitting on me and so I told him he was EJECTED. He stayed right in my face yelling, and I MOUTHED fuck dude and said I don't appreciate being spit all overand backed off a few steps to get him out of my face. He then got right back in my face and said oh, we're going to say the fuck word and went on a rant where he Called me a piece of shit, then a bit later a little piece of shit, then a little bit later a fucking piece of shit all while reminding me the shitty job being done and this was the reason I only umpired J.V. At this point me and my partner were signaling and telling his coaches to get him off the field. They came and started trying to get him. He kept yelling all the way back to the dugout, but eventually left the confines of the field and we resumed playing. |
