Umpire ejects DJ in Florida minor league game
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The music stopped at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach after a minor league umpire ejected the music DJ for playing "Three Blind Mice" during the game.
The ejection came in the eighth inning of Wednesday's game between the Daytona Cubs and the Fort Myers Miracle.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports Cubs manager Brian Harper was arguing a call at first base when he heard home plate umpire Mario Seneca bellow "you're out."
Harper says he thought he was being kicked out of the game. Instead, the umpire ejected the music man.
The public address system at the stadium was shut down for the rest of the game. The newspaper reports fans took it upon themselves to announce players as they approached the plate.
The Cubs won 2-1.
The ejection came in the eighth inning of Wednesday's game between the Daytona Cubs and the Fort Myers Miracle.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports Cubs manager Brian Harper was arguing a call at first base when he heard home plate umpire Mario Seneca bellow "you're out."
Harper says he thought he was being kicked out of the game. Instead, the umpire ejected the music man.
The public address system at the stadium was shut down for the rest of the game. The newspaper reports fans took it upon themselves to announce players as they approached the plate.
The Cubs won 2-1.
Just another reason to go to minor league games instead of the big leagues!
Must have been his time of the month.
I guess it hit a little too close to home for him.
This umpire just made a fool out of himself. Brings back the memories of Leslie Nielson from the first Naked Gun movie where he played an umpire...here's to you Mr. Umpire..
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The umpire is in the wrong profession if he can't take a little ribbing.
Well, let's just hope the ump got himself a nice fat and expensive moving violation on the drive home... ;-)
Can umpires really do that?? If I was the DJ, and the sound got shut down, I would grab a megaphone to continue.
 @KOMODrone#07737 Umpires can eject anyone from the game.... fans, staff, players, managers. Basically anyone who interferes with a game in any way can get thrown out.
 @Ethan Allen Can they eject a Police Officer, too? Not to be disrespectful, but just for the irony?
Guess this means the umpires at Safeco better eject the DJ there for playing chicken sounds when the pitcher chickens out and intentionally walks the batter. Talk about a Donald Trump wannabe.
Aw c' mon! Part of the fun of a ballgame is the background music between plays - I used to love it when Strangers in the Night was played during pitcher/catcher talks; or the Dragnet theme when a coach went out to the mound.
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Jeeeez, what a sourpuss.
Sounds like the umpires can't take the heat. Grow some thicker skin guys...