Clemens was ejected by umpire at 10 yo son's baseball game
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Great stuff!
He would get in less trouble if he stayed with his teammates on his off pitching days!
He would get in less trouble if he stayed with his teammates on his off pitching days!
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The ump was "about 20 years old."
LoL.
BOTR
Nuts myself,
S.
Looks like the media got their hands on the story and ran with it,
of course not accounting for the facts CLEMENS RECEIVES APOLIGIES ...jay
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Mike
I also 2nd mcastaldi's post. I've actually moved back near the town I grew up playing Little League and have wanted to help out as a volunteer coach. However, all the negative talk about 'bad' parents getting involved has deterred me. I might give coaching at the new high school they're building down the street a shot though.
KIDS RULES:
1. EVERYBODY plays each game if they are not injured or in any other way incapacitated. EVERYBODY! If that means that the kid who's batting 0.996 is up with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and representing the game winning run, and who must be sat for the child batting 0.100, then so be it.
2. If ANY child ridicules ANYONE during a game, whether they be a member of the other team, their own team, the umpiring crew, or the fans, they will be removed from the game. If the team must forfeit as a result of too many people needing to be removed, then so be it.
PARENT RULES:
1. If you don't like how I run this team then you can feel free to place your child on another.
2. Any parent who exhibits poor sportsmanship towards ANYONE during the game will be asked to leave. A chronically bad parent will be asked to move his or her child to another team. However, if that parent refuses, then the child, assuming he or she abides by the child rules, will never be punished for the misdeeds of their parents.
Witnesses want Clemens cleared
Maintenance crew saw no reason for ejection
By David Pressgrove, Sports Writer
Wednesday, August 4, 2004
xxxxxx xxxxxxxxand xxxxxxx xxxxxxwatched the sports shows and read the newspaper reports about Roger Clemens' weekend appearance in Craig and they were confused.
"I never saw (Clemens) do anything to get kicked out," said xxxxxxx who, along with xxxxxxxx, is part of the maintenance crew at the Loudy-Simpson complex. "If he did actually get kicked out it was for a lot less than what other parents or coaches are tossed for."
On Saturday, Clemens was in Craig watching his son Kacy play in the Triple Crown World Series for the 10-and-younger Katy (Texas) Cowboys. According to an Associated Press story, Cowboy manager Doug Hanson said that an umpire came over toward the Cowboys' dugout at Field 4 and said, ‘He's outta here!"
Hanson said the umpire accused Clemens of spitting a sunflower seed at him after his son was called out on a play at second.
xxxxxxxx and xxxxxxx saw none of that.
"I was watching Clemens because the crowds were starting to gather around him during the game," xxxxxx said. "He was sitting on a bucket outside the dugout, signing autographs and watching the game. I went over to ask him if he wanted me to keep the crowd away so he could watch the game. He turned to me and said it was OK because he was leaving anyway. He said he was a distraction to the game."
xxxxxx said right before Clemens got up an umpire came over and said something but he couldn't hear what he said.
"It didn't look like there was anything controversial going on at all," xxxxxx said. "He just got up and left."
What xxxxxx saw coincides with the statement that one of Clemens' agents made to the AP on Monday.
"Roger told me he was signing autographs when the disputed call happened and didn't even see the play," sports agent Randy Hendricks said. "To his knowledge, no one ever asked him to leave."
So there are two stories out there:
Clemens argued the call, spit a sunflower seed that landed somewhere near the umpire's feet and was asked to leave; or Clemens decided he was too much of a distraction and got up and left.
"Whenever parents or coaches are asked to leave, it's usually a pretty big deal," said xxxxxxx, who works every weekend during a Triple Crown function. "I wish I could have talked to the umpire to find out what actually happened because there was never any sort of commotion or problem. Kids just started saying Clemens was thrown out and it spread through the complex."
Triple Crown would not comment or give the name of the umpire who made the call.
After Clemens left he hopped in his car and drove around the complex. xxxxxxx said he and xxxxx had a short conversation with him to tell him that he could watch the game from the fence beyond left field.
"He wasn't upset or anything,"xxxxxxx said. "We just told him where he could watch from, and he said it was cool."
Clemens' contract with the Houston Astros allows him to be away from the team on his off days. xxxxxx and xxxxxxx sympathized with the future Hall of Famer.
"He was on vacation and just wanted to watch his son play baseball," xxxxxx said. "He was signing autographs and up until the last game he would take a picture with the opposing team. He was a complete gentleman about the whole thing whether he was or wasn't kicked out."
Without the version from the umpire at the game the true story may never come out. Clemens agent said the Astros ace considered it a "nonevent." He started Tuesday night against the Atlanta Braves and most of the Web sites that carried the story on their home page had moved on to another lead story.
"It shouldn't have been that big of a deal," xxxxxx said. "When I saw it on Sports Center I thought it was a little cool that I was there, but that's about it."
1) The coach's son always pitches.
2) If the coach has no son, he's a failed minor leaguer with a drinking problem
3) There's always one gay kid on the team. He always wants to play catcher.
4) The mothers with maids don't mind sliding
5) If you say " So and so made a play by anyone before 1995", you're a dinosaur
6) One parent in the stands will be the worlds biggest a-hole and your boss at work
7) Your kid can be hitting .888 but if he strikes out in the big game, he's a goat
8) The autistic kids play outfield
9) The dugout always smells like urine
10) Molest the orphan
11) Never draft the kids who have names that end in "berg" or "stein"
12) Not every Japanese kid is Ichiro
13) You will have a fist size wad of bubble gum in your hair by the season's end if you coach
14) The pizza dinner after the last game always includes one couple yelling and divorcing
15) Your kid will always end up on a loser like Expos or some team like the Orioles with horrible colors
16) Plan on seven hospital trips and 200 stitches per team per year
17) If it's tee-ball, the kids can hit a pea off the tee in practice, during the games nobody will ever hit anything but the black rubber stand
18) Your kid will throw harder than you when he is nine
19) Start your kids on steroids to establish a record of success
20) Adult circumcision is twenty times more fun than taking your whole team to a real ballgame
S.
You live in Craig? Awesome! I used to live there myself - from 1995-98. Taught at Moffat County HS, coached football and baseball. Always good to hear from somebody that's even heard of Craig, let alone lives there
Tabe
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Didn't know I had to turn PM's on. They are now. Gimme a holler when you get a chance...
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<< <i>In retrospect, 'roid rage. >>
In retrospect, nothing actually happened.
Tabe
The report failed to mention that the young umpire pump two viles of HGH into Roger's left butt cheek before Clemens left the facility! Oh Roger!!