Marty Brown Can't Take It Any More (Again)

[Mulboyne]

Carps manager Marty Brown did not like an umpire's call during his team's match against Yakult. After a heated exchange, Brown was thrown out of the game for the 8th time, the most of any professional ball club manager. He left his shoes and socks behind in protest. His team came back to win from 0-6 down.







Spotted by Tomoko Hosaka.

[Mulboyne]

Here he is getting tossed in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The shoes seem like a recent innovation:

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[Mulboyne]

Here's no.8:

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[Taro Toporific]

... He left his shoes and socks behind in protest..

Shoes?
Isn't he supposed to throw them?

'They aren't humble'
Japanese ump has choice words for MLB brethren
SportsIllustrated.CNN.com -- TOKYO
....Japanese umpires patiently endure insults from managers that major league umps would never tolerate. They wouldn't dare to call strikes with the trademark howl of their American cousins.
Compared with their assertive U.S. counterparts, Japanese umpires are almost apologetic....
...At least several times each season, players and managers rush out of the dugout to hurl shouts in the umpire's face, sometimes pushing him.
The only American to work as an umpire in Japan on a professional level, Mike DiMuro, lasted only a few months in 1997, quitting in disgust after being poked in the chest by a batter over a strike call....

[Behan]

I think Tanaka-san has some good advice for MLB umps. I don't think there is any excuse for the way DiMuro was treated here, though. The league did nothing to the player who pushed him or Hoshino for that matter.

[maraboutslim]

Did he go hang himself in the clubhouse? Don't people traditionally take off their shoes and place them neatly before committing suicide?

[IkemenTommy]

Fuckin A... just give it up. The Hiroshima craps have no chance in the J-series. Mind as well start thinking about the off-season. Actually, I would be thinking about my own job if I were Marty Brown...

[Mulboyne]

According to the Yomiuri (Japanese), he'll be going at the end of the season.

[TennoChinko]

Thanks for the Youtube links. Had a good laugh. Marty Brown is a total spaz!

[Mulboyne]

Mainichi: American Brown to become Rakuten Eagles' manager

[Greji]

Mainichi: American Brown to become Rakuten Eagles' manager

I had heard this was coming. The major reason for the fallout with Nomura was the exotic contract that he had featuring, limos to and from games, top suite hotel reservations, and other expensive perks for both Nomura and the lovable and buxom Sachiya. These perks were for every game for the whole season and represented a large chunk of the total player's budget. Apparently, Mikitanishacho said "Hey, enough is enough," and the Nomura cost, plus his caustic comments about the players (even when they won) did not endear him to the lower levels of management as well, so "Bye-bye Nomura, hello Brownie" was apparently the cheapest solution.

[Captain Japan]

Nomura was in the booth for Game 1 of the Japan Series. TV Asahi's announcers are just horrible. They were basically leading cheers for the Giants the entire broadcast.

[Captain Japan]

Here's no.8:

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He had a good point on this one. Terrible call.

[Greji]

He had a good point on this one. Terrible call.

It's also interesting to note that the announcer could only say "wakaranai." It seems they can only indicate it was a bad call, is if it made against the Giants.

It definately was not a swinging strike. It may have been one of those "you're an fg, you're not allowed to have two balls in a row."

[Behan]

lovable and buxom Sachiya.

What a hag she is. There was a JT article some years back about how she was a bad influnce on him during his playing days and that she caused him to lose a lot of friends. Didn't her son (or stepson?) turn her in for cheating on taxes, too?
But one good thing you can say about her is that she gave Kanda Uno five across the face.

[Greji]

What a hag she is.

The use of that term insults hags worldwide!

Didn't her son (or stepson?) turn her in for cheating on taxes, too?

That would have been Don (agent for Hideo Nomo, among others). There are lots of stories about Don and his brother (who was a reasonable catcher for Yakult). Sa-chan's first husband was a US guy who worked for USFJ. She offed him and eventially snagged Nomura in a bar where she was allegedly working, hence the Nomura name for the kids.

The hate exchanged between mother and children in this lovely arrangement is the stuff of legends, from when they were little crum crushers and she was sending them beneath the crowd to pickup money thrown as an offering in the jinjas that didn't make it into the collection troughs, to them turning her in for her illegal deals and taxes.

Lovely family although Don is a pretty nice guy considering the blasting he has taken in the J-sports and vernacular media for supposedly trying to ruin J-baseball.

[IkemenTommy]

I figured it's more appropriate here than anywhere else
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