I just saw this on Reddit and it may be the most incredible display of bad sportsmanship and uncontrolled rage that I have seen at a sporting event. Former major league player and South Georgia Peanuts manager Wally Backman is thrown out of the game and proceeds to unleash a storm of profane comments. The highlight is when he says the umpire is a “disgrace to baseball” and, after a tirade of foul language, keeps asking what he said to justify the expulsion.
The explosion was triggered when outfielder Doc Brooks questions a strike call and has words with the umpire — leading to his being tossed out of the game and Backman’s rage. This all occurred in front of children who watched a grown man acting like an out-of-control toddler.
The video must be dated because reports indicate that Backman is now managing the Mets’ Brooklyn Cyclones. It was part of a documentary on Backman’s career called “Playing for Peanuts.”
Backman proceeded to throw 22 bats and a bucket of balls onto the field. He is then heard complaining that he broke a nail and demands a nail clipper. A rather feeble ending to a case of almost psychotic field rage.
I have seen this video couple of times before i don’t understand that why wally has showed so much angerness to his team?
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CCD, that was a very good article. There is so much good commentary online, but never enough time to read most of it, even if you are fortunate enough to find those types of articles.
Besides Mr. Obama’s naïveté, this sentence from your link sums up a few of his other flawed character traits.
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“Obama’s propensity to retreat at the first sign of resistance shows that he lacks both guts and the strong convictions that are essential elements distinguishing statesmen from politicians.”
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Regarding the baseball topic, I learned many of my sportsmanship skills playing little league baseball, starting out as a Mighty Mite. While I only played league ball until junior high, I never had a coach or umpire ‘act’ younger than I was. Manager Backman displayed the antithesis of what sportsmanship is all about.
mespo,
I could not let this one slide. They can become Pope if they play right or make the rules up as they go along…..
twinoval:
“I’ll tell you what, if you play for Wally Backman, you’re going to be able to run through a brick wall, because we have the same emotions toward him as he has toward us. I mean, I would have run through a brick wall for him. Everybody is playing hard — I think playing above their ability — when they play for a guy like that”
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And the Hitler Youth donned uniforms and rifles and got slaughtered at Caen. What does that prove? That young, inexperienced athletes under a hierarchical system come to admire their fiery leader? Isn’t that novel. Beside there’s no wall running in baseball.
mespo727272
Here is Dan Uggla’s take:
“Well, obviously he’s very passionate with protecting his players,” Uggla said. “I’ll tell you what, if you play for Wally Backman, you’re going to be able to run through a brick wall, because we have the same emotions toward him as he has toward us. I mean, I would have run through a brick wall for him. Everybody is playing hard — I think playing above their ability — when they play for a guy like that.”
It’s baseball, not badminton
Try you tubing Tommy Lasorda