Via Marc Carig of the Star-Ledger:
“I asked him if he had stretched before the game,” Russell Martin explained. “And he said ‘what?’ Turned around, walked around me. ‘Excuse me?’ Did you stretch before the game? And he’s like, looks at me kind of funny. I’m like ‘you’re kind of tight right now.’ And he tossed me right out of the game. I was like ‘what happened?’ I thought this was fun, I thought this was a game… And I didn’t say it in a way that’s condescending. I was just trying to loosen some things up a little bit because I felt he wasn’t really having a good time. And yeah, so he threw me out. I didn’t say he sucked, I didn’t say he was the worst umpire in the league, I didn’t say any of that stuff. I just made a joke and then he threw me out. No warning, nothing. Just gone.”
That’s about as funny a way to get thrown out of a baseball gam...
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