I always see clips of baseball players arguing with a referee and then getting ejected, but I’ve never once seen a coach or player convince a referee they’re wrong.
Why bother? Surely you know that you’re not gonna change their mind and that you can get ejected pretty easily and that gotta be worse than stifling your ego for a moment just copping the decision.
I’m Australian and don’t really watch baseball so I apologise if any nomenclature is incorrect.
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In addition to all of the other things that have already been mentioned, baseball has a VERY long season with a LOT of games, so one player getting ejected from a single game isn’t going to have a huge effect. Fans might get angry at a player for losing his cool and getting ejected if the baseball season were like, 20 games, because each game would be so much more valuable. But since the season is 162 games, missing half of a game isn’t that big of a deal.
Also, you may (or may not, I don’t know what you think!) be overestimating how often ejections actually happen because you’re not seeing it in context, you might be seeing YouTube videos of Wildest Ejections of All Time or something. It’s not like players are getting ejected every game for arguing. I just googled and it turns out there is a [blog that tracks ejections](https://www.closecallsports.com/2023/). The season just started last week and so far about 60 games have been played. According to this blog, there has been one player ejection so far (Manny Machado, whose argument with the ump also led to his manager getting ejected). If you’re following a single team over the course of a 162 game season, you should expect to see maybe….5ish ejections a year from arguing with the ump.
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