Mitch Williams ejected from little league game for swearing, arguing with umpire
Former big league reliever Mitch Williams was ejected from a little league game Saturday for a profanity-laced tirade with an umpire, according to Deadspin.
Williams, who is now an analyst for MLB Network, was attending his son's under-10 game as part of the Ripken Baseball tournament in Aberdeen, Md., and his temper allegedly got the best of him.
Sources say Williams contested numerous calls from the stands throughout the game before things escalated into a face-to-face confrontation with the ump.
[Courtesy: Deadspin]
Williams, who was known as "Wild Thing" during his MLB career, then took to Twitter to defend himself against observers that were disgusted with his behavior.
@HitMeSEO to set the record straight. I was thrown out for laughing at a call.then the threatened to fight me.said pick a time and place.
— Mitch Williams (@WildThingMLBN) May 11, 2014
@HitMeSEO for those that think I'm making this up.it is on film.,and when he threatened me 1 of my coaches came out and put his hands on him
— Mitch Williams (@WildThingMLBN) May 11, 2014
@HitMeSEO the ump and moved him away.the ump said you can't touch me.what the ump didn't know is my coach is a judge. And my coach told him
— Mitch Williams (@WildThingMLBN) May 11, 2014
@HitMeSEO if we weren't in Maryland you would be in handcuffs and arrested for threatening me. All I care about is the kids.the entire game
— Mitch Williams (@WildThingMLBN) May 11, 2014
We can only hope the film Williams speaks of surfaces so we can decide for ourselves what happened.