The Josh Innes Show - Hard On College Baseball Coach

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

The Coastal Carolina baseball coach got tossed in the first inning of Game 2 of the championship series. The world is crying about umps being out of control. Here's a thought...come get your boy. Lets talk about times umps are truly out of bounds... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So I'm going to say the team that won the national championship is the winner. And then I'm going to say the team that lost the national championship is what kids the loser. That's right. The loser. Now, I don't know what it is they're going to say or who they're going to say is the winner and the loser. Whoever it is, they're going to be reaching for it. But again, what do I know? I'm just a lowly peasant doing a podcast in his underwear right now. But headline reads, winners and losers from LSU's College World Series title. One team won, one team didn't.

You don't have to dig deep to find the winners and the losers. The dudes that played for the winning team, they were the winners. Ones that played for the losing team, them there were the losers. Let's play some commercials and we will continue. At Desjardins Insurance, we know that when you're a building contractor, your company's foundation needs to be strong. That's why our agents go the extra mile to understand your business and provide tailored solutions for all its unique needs. You put your heart into your company, so we put your heart into your company,

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I like listening to baseball on the radio when I sit outside and drink beer and play gotsy, so I'll throw the LSU game on the old Bluetooth and listen to some of the SEC games, but I don't follow it religiously. I never did when I live there. You know, I've never been to their current baseball stadium that opened, I guess a year, right around the time I left, I guess is when it opened. I went to the old park a couple of times, the old Alec Box Stadium, but it's never something I truly got into. But much like LSU football and much

like the Saints, as I moved further away and wasn't part of it every day, I grew to like it more. Like when I lived in Baton Rouge, and I had to talk about LSU every day, I wasn't as passionate about LSU because I had to deal daily with the fans and everything. And it just kind of ruined my love for it. As I moved away, I became a diehard LSU fan. As I moved away I became diehard Saints fan. That's just kind of how things went. But I was never really into baseball and but now I kind of find myself into it just because I want LSU to do big things. Give me something to cheer for. My

other teams suck. What do you want from me? So let's see here. The big story that came out of that game though is that the manager of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers which is a rooster. Do you remember a movie called Rock-A-Doodle where there's like an Elvis like rooster that kind of rules like the... I forgot the exact plot but I want to say there was an Elvis like singing rooster cartoon and he wanted to make it to the big city off the farm and become like a successful singer or something. It's called Rock-A-Doodle and his name was

Chanticleer. Anyway, so the Chanticleer's manager got ejected in the first inning for arguing balls and strikes. Mind you, that game was 0-0 in the first inning. There were two outs and nobody was on base. So I believe LSU was batting at the time. I forgot if it was the top of the first or the bottom of the first. Either way, he's bitching about balls and strikes in the first inning of a 0-0 game and goes out and bitches to the umpire. The umpire says, hey pal, go fuck yourself. The guy keeps bitching and they toss him and the out and bitches to the umpire the umpire says hey pal go fuck yourself the guy keeps bitching and they toss him and the first base coach in the first inning now

I'm not a big fan of umpires running dudes from games earlier dudes in a game like give him a long leash right like the one of the worst things ever when McGuire and Sosa were in the chase for the home run I think McGuire at the time had 60 home runs or 59. I forgot what the number was. It's a Saturday afternoon baseball game on Fox. I believe it was the Cardinals versus the Reds and McGuire comes up in the first inning, argues balls and strikes and bitches about a call, sold out ballpark, Bush Stadium, 60,000 people, not a seat to be had. They want to see history. It's bright sunshine, beautiful day, St. Louis.

Umpire runs Maguire in the first fucking inning. That is without a doubt the worst thing I've ever seen an official do. Now, there have been bad calls, but very, only baseball really has the option to throw a dude out of a game like that, like where the umpire can just get pissed off and go, hey, you, you're out of here. A lot of times people will say, hey, ump, they're not here to see you, and that's true. And in the case of that Maguire play I'm referring to, you literally ruined everyone's day. The outcome of that game didn't matter. No one cared if the Cardinals won or lost. They were

out of the race anyway. The Reds were probably out of the race matter. No one cared if the Cardinals won or lost. They were out of the race anyway. The Reds were probably out of the race too. No one gave a shit. Fox wasn't airing that game because they wanted to see the Cardinals versus the Reds. They were airing that game because they wanted Maguires, Fortbats that maybe resulted in a home run. The umpire in that instance probably should have been fired and never allowed to umpire again. I'm not sure which umpire did that, but that umpire should have been dead, gone gone buried out in the desert somewhere because that guy didn't understand the assignment.

I see a lot of people bitching about the way this guy that's the manager of the Coastal Carolina baseball team was handled. Here would be my argument for everyone saying ah the umpire fucking blew it blah blah blah blah. You have to be a special brand of hard on to be arguing balls and strikes in the first inning. I'm fully aware it's the national championship. I'm fully aware if you lose you go home. I'm fully aware of that and I get it's competitive. But arguing balls and strikes in the first inning of a nothing nothing game is hard on stuff. So I don't feel bad for you.

I'm not sympathizing for you. I'm not crying for you that you got tossed and then they throw out your other coach as well. So some doofus had to be the coach the rest of the game and I don't believe you lost that game because of that now would it be helpful to have your coach, your head coach in there to make decisions? Sure, would have been nice. However, your coach couldn't control himself. Instead of blaming the umpire, by the way, the umpire didn't make a game-changing call

and that's what you were bitching about. If the umpire would have blown a call that cost you two runs, then I would look at you and say, okay, just go after him. You're talking about balls and strikes, which for the most part are subjective. Like I get there's a strike zone and there's supposed to be a strike zone. Everybody knows some umpires call them a little bit further out, a little bit up, a little bit in, a little bit low. There's a different world. So you get the fucking robots and there's a designated strike zone for the

robots to call. People are human. They're going to call the strike zone the way they see the strike zone. Is that right? You could argue yes, no, whatever, but that's part of baseball. You know that going in. If like you had to play like the Saints getting screwed on trying to get to the Super Bowl, if you're going to bitch at that guy, you'd be justified in that. Arguing a couple of missed pitches in the first inning of a game is stupid. And to see all

the people like, I can't believe this, this umpire needs to be reprimanded. Oh fuck off. Stop bitching. Like that's why when I saw the guy get tossed. I'm like what the fuck are you already bitching about? It's the first inning. A couple of missed calls and you're already barking at the

home plate umpire. So I don't feel bad for this doofus at all. I feel I don't feel bad at all. I don't I don't sympathize. I say that you don't feel bad for this doofus at all. I feel I don't feel bad at all. I don't I don't sympathize. I say it feels good. It's like when LSU has a team that's this good where they've won two of the last three titles, eight all all time. It feels good to be the fan of a team where everybody's bitching saying it was rigged for you because usually as LSU guy as

Louisiana guy, we're the ones like all the refs want Bama to win all the SEC needs to have Bama. They're fucking us like it feels good to be the team that has the other mouth breathers yelling that we're the ones getting the benefit of the calls. That means you've made it when your team is good enough to start having opposing teams fans say that it's rigged for you. You've hit elite fucking status. And LSU baseball was elite in the 90s up until 2000 when they won their last title. Got them

to five for Skip Burtman. Right? Was that six? I think that was his sixth? Fifth. It was his fifth. So he got to five for Skip Burtman. Then they went almost a decade without winning another title. Then after that title, they went like 14 years without winning another one. Now they've won two in the last three fucking years and now the whole world's telling you that it's rigged for LSU. Fuck, that means you've made it, man. You've hit the pinnacle. When other teams fans run to the internet and say it's rigged, you've made it. I'm the fan, like I'm the one that's like the league rigged it for the Rams and blah blah blah. Like I'm that guy usually because my teams are the ones that are usually getting hosed.

Not this time friend. The team I root for is the one that people are bitching about now. And that feels nice. And that manager coach, whatever they call him in college baseball for the Shanta clears is a pud. Like, like, instead, like if I'm a fan of Coastal Carolina today, or just an anti LSU person, instead of yelling and screaming at the mountaintops that that we were screwed because the umpire was rogue and threw him out, you need to sometimes look at your own dude and see what he

did wrong. That dude was trying to put on a show that dude was trying to flex his dick a little bit and show. And you know what, you were irresponsible and you screwed your team by getting tossed in that scenario. So and also let's not act like they didn't benefit from shit from the UMPs in that series too. I'm not gonna go deep into it because no one really gives a shit that's listening to this about a full on breakdown of the two games and the championship

series of the college world series. So I get it. But if you're that irresponsible and you're the I don't say you're responsible. You're a hard on like that's hard on like flat build hat pulled low over your eyes baseball dipshit guy stuff. Like just look at the manager of the Coastal Carolina team and then he goes off at the end of the game and bitches about the UMS. It is your responsibility to show restraint because you put your team at a disadvantage. You're already playing LSU, you're already facing a great starter, you know they got a couple of guys on their bullpen that are

ready to go that are beasts. You put your team behind the eight ball because you wanted to make it about you. Everybody wants to say, Oh, the UMPs want to make it about them. And yes, the umpires do go back to that point about the McGuire thing to throw Mark McGuire out of that game is single handedly the most irresponsible bullshit thing that an umpire has ever done. Right up there. Like, it's one thing to blow a call like Armando Galarraga should have had a perfect game thrown but

the first base umpire which one would they got the mustache that blew the call when Armando Galarraga of the Tigers had a perfect game and he clearly had the guy out at first base he blew the call and it sucks that he blew the call was it Jim Joyce did Jim Joyce blow the call and he blew the call and that's part of life and that was before replay and I'd argued that it actually made Galara Armando Galarraga's whole thing even more impressive not even impressive, but made it more valuable, you know, because you're part of a flub in history kind of like Don Dinkins.

You're fucking the Cardinals in the World Series back in 85 like he didn't want to blow the call. He just did there's a difference between blowing a call and you do that you fuck a team. There's another thing by making it all about yourself. And that's what the guy who tosses McGuire when he's got 60 home runs and the ballpark's packed, and they're there to see McGuire take four at bats, and they throw him in the first inning because he got

upset because McGuire argued balls and strikes. That's a guy going rogue. That's a guy being a giant penis. And that's bullshit. Guy misses a couple balls and strikes and a coach comes out. They don't want to toss you. Those guys don't want to toss you in the championship game. So don't be a dickhead. Like you had to have gone so far in your quest to shit on this ump that he throws you out. Like you're a dipshit in that case. And you screwed your team, you hurt your team because their

coach isn't there. You're stupid and you made it about you. A lot of times you can say the ump makes it about them. In this case, it wasn't the UMPs making it about themselves. It was this guy making it about himself and he cost his team. So there.