Managers and umpires have been getting into it for years on the baseball diamond. Some of the most entertaining moments in baseball history actually involve manager/umpire clashes. Guys like Lou Pinella, Sparky Anderson, Tommy Lasorda, and others have all participated in classic moments that live on well past their managing days.
Looks like we can add another name to the list of nutty baseball managers. Former MLB player Jose Offerman manages a Dominican winter league team known as the Licey Tigers. After Offerman's catcher was ejected for arguing balls and strikes, Jose had more than a few choice words for the umps and threw a WWE style right hook at Daniel Rayburn for his trouble.
Offerman, who has had some issues with anger management in the past was immediately arrested and taken to jail. At this point it isn't clear whether Rayburn will file assault charges against Offerman.
Everywhere that you turn these days some athlete is doing something stupid and this incident certainly ranks very high on the damn dumb list. Take a look here for yourself.
I don't care if you are a player, manager/coach, or even an executive, you can't put your hands on the officials that call the games. Yes, they make questionable calls sometimes but that doesn't make it alright to physically abuse them. As far as I'm concerned, Offerman shouldn't be allowed to ever manage another team and should be banned from baseball.
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