I closed Part III by relating the story of an annoying coach of a bad team who constantly chipped at umpires. Actually his team had quite a bit of talent; they were just poorly coached. At that point in the season, I believe their record was 1-13. We were only in the second inning, the coach had already been warned, and his team was already losing.

I ejected the coach when he was 20 feet out of his dugout and about 60 feet from me — so it was a long distance ejection. Even if he had not been the source of the negative comment, because of my warning in the first inning he was responsible for the conduct of his bench. That was the basis for my ejection.

The coach loses control

After he was ejected, the coach ran over to me at home plate. He yelled: "You are the worst umpire in this league."

Since I had been planning this for a while, I had a witty comeback: "So we deserve each other. Why shouldn't the worst coach in the league have the worst umpire for his games? You think good umpires want to come here?"

Continued...