Bobby Cox Has Seen Crazier Managers Than Phillip Wellman

There has to be some sort of karma going that the minor league manager who goes completely berserk would come from the same organization where the major league manager is chasing the all-time record for ejections. And wouldn't it figure that the record chaser, Bobby Cox would have some insight on his organizational peer and part time lunatic, Phillip Wellman. This perspective is accompanied by an anecdote we wish would show up on You Tube:

"You used to see that all time in the Minors," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "The game has changed now. It's just changed." Cox remembers being in Syracuse one night nearly three decades ago, when a manager scaled a light pole in right field while yelling at the umpires. The comical aspect came when he was scared to climb down, forcing a local firefighter to help him make his descent.

Unlike Wellman, that manager was spared some unwanted attention because his actions came before this era in which cameras can broadcast nearly anything and everything to the world in an instant. "It happened and they've got it on video," Cox said. "Whether it's Paris Hilton or a manager going off, they've got it. So it's not overblown. It's just the way that it is nowadays."

This brings up an interesting point ... if Bobby Cox understands that there's cameras that capture every image imaginable, and if he's conscious that the next ejection is the record tying ejection, then what does he have planned? He can't let Wellman, the minor leaguer, upstage him ... can he? The record tying and breaking ejections have to be something special. Props, stunt doubles, circus animals, the works.

Most likely though, Cox will probably make his next ejection the most low key ejection ever. He'll probably call the crew chief from his car on the way to the ballpark, say something about his eyesight, get ejected on the spot, then turn the car towards the coast and head for the beach having tied the record without having to be at the ballpark to talk about it.

Previously on The Fanhouse:
Phillip Wellman is a Madman
Bobby Cox One Ejection From the Record

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