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LeCroy is dead wrong… had he not popped out of the dugout and acused Phelps of taunting him and his boys (and there apparently is a case that Phelps wasn't), umps likely would have either ignored the antics or given a warning. As an old-schooler, I agree with many here that the routine exuberance these days crosses my comfort line, but LeCroy absolutely goaded the umps into making a bad decision. Go Dawgs!
The reaction on the Liberty players on the field lends to Phelps possibly doing some "discussing" with the visiting dugout. My initial view is the same but that is my initial view. I can't see his parents. And that finger point was not towards the stands.
I agree that ejecting and having to sit out a full game is way excessive. A warning to the entire team should have been the first step. The umpires should have recognized the emotional charge in this game as well as the ramifications and acted accordingly. And I'm not saying they were biased but the pitch calls in this game went way better for Liberty than they did for us.
With that said, I have no issue with showing emotion after the big hit, goodness knows we were doing nothing up till that swing, but act like you've been there before. Act like that home run was exactly what you intended to do. Be fired up? Of course, but celebrate with the team in the dugout.
****Just watched a different angle. Phelps was very clearly taunting the first baseman, which prompted the reaction of the second baseman but also, the home plate ump was following him out of the box, seemingly anxious to pull the trigger.
No big deal… Just do like everyone else does… Find a local judge, file an injunction, get a ruling in your favor and play… UGA might as well do like everyone else, it's a sign of the times… Fight fire with fire!
what do you think the first baseman said to Tre?
@99nout
Proper English, my friend. The word is "phuq". (Sorry, couldn't help myself).
It does not matter. He may have said something like "Why are you taunting my teammates" or "Act like you've been here before" or "Not cool, man. Not cool". Then again, he may have said "Shut your a$$ up and go away". Again, it does not matter.
I will not defend bad behavior, regardless of affiliation.
He could have acknowledged his parents with a wave as he was "running" down the baseline. Right-handed hitter, yet he carries his bat with him for several steps down the first base line and then turns to face the stands and shuffles most of the way down the line and made multiple gestures of some sort. As he started carrying the bat you could see the umpire warn him and he dropped it, so he was on notice about show boating. The bat should have been dropped behind him at the plate.
Self-inflicted wound and reminded me that he had similar behavior in regionals last year, and he wasn't the only one. Dan Jackson carried a bat halfway down the line and threw it toward visiting teams' dugout. Umpires warned them last year about their behavior, and Phelps was one of the ones last year wearing his jersey unbuttoned nearly to his belly with no t-shirt and sporting a gigantic gold TP medallion. I have noted throughout this year they are still wearing jerseys unbuttoned, but are wearing T-shirts and thankfully are not wearing a bunch of gaudy jewelry.
Yes, I am old school, and proud of it. I think this behavior is what we get from the Instagram/TikTok generation who are constantly saying to their "followers" - LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME .
Get over yourselves and show some class!.
@99nout - Ridiculous and low class comment. I did not see Liberty behave poorly in any way during the game, and I don't blame their coach for protesting what appeared to be taunting.
Completely agree! Feels like there's very little coverage on DN of UGA's amazing performance so far in baseball, a fraction of even off-season football stuff (not that I'm saying we need less of that!).
Hopefully this will pick up as they go the Super Regional...
sounds like you’re ok with defending the bad behavior of the first baseman. No one is talking about the Liberty SP MFing our guys after every inning.
It was a big moment and Tre celebrated. Both dugouts should’ve gotten a warning and moved on.
You weren’t watching close enough then
Sounds like you aren't reading. I have no idea what was said by the first baseman nor do I care, as I clearly said. I also said the umpire overreacted and it should have been a warning but again, act like you have been there before. Celebrate? Absolutely, but celebrate with your team and not against the other.
Frankly, I don't understand what the "new age" bravado and over-the-top exuberance so commonplace among athletes (and society in general, for that matter) gets you other than temporary self-satisfaction. In this case, even if he's "innocent", it also got Phelps and our coach ejected, and one of our top players out of the line-up in a more competitive next round. Not exactly a great trade-off. And to me it's at best a debatable "look". Conversely, I'm not sure how acting humbly confident and respectfully stoked hurts you. Again to me, that's never a bad look. I guess many of us here are just a bunch of old farts living in the past. Go Dawgs!
Rewatched it and again observed Liberty first and second baseman interaction with Phelps. they were not in his face and appeared to be saying something like - "come on man" or "not cool". Umpire had put Phelps on notice and he stepped on "his rake" and it hit him in the mouth. I can't control other people. I can control me! Let's not twist ourselves into pretzels trying to justify bad behavior
I agree that umpire could have let it go, but he warned Phelps coming out of the box to drop the bat, and that should have been enough to remind him to behave!
so you want to give Libery the benefit of the doubt more than a UGA player. Noted.