Baseball Entertainment — By Tommy Purser

I got to Saturday’s Jeff Davis baseball game a little late, but just in time to witness what turned out to be some of the most entertaining moments of Jeff Davis’ 6-5 win over Callaway.
It was an odd event. Odd because Jeff Davis and Callaway have two of the best small town baseball programs in Georgia. Actually, both teams have shown in the past that they can often hold their own against larger schools, so the Yellow Jackets and the Cavaliers are among the state’s best programs regardless of classification.
And both programs are guided by longtime coaches highly respected by their peers.
But the success of the programs and their coaches are not what made Saturday’s contest so entertaining in the early innings. The entertainment came when the officials, bless their hearts, showed that they weren’t among the best in the state.
They made some calls that would have been laughable if they had not so gotten under the skin of two veteran coaches that know a bad call when they see one.
A lot of folks find it problematic that high school baseball coaches can act out with such vehement insistent outcries — which is another way to say they can act out so vociferously.
Me? I find it highly entertaining. Especially in the style of Paul Glass. And, if anyone was keeping score Saturday afternoon, I would suggest they gave Coach Glass a win over Cavalier’s Coach Dusty Hubbard. Coach Hubbard was laudably upset and voiced his objections with a trophy-winning performance, if such trophies are available for awarding.
But my vote goes to Coach Glass.
And moments before, I listened to Coach Glass give an equally vociferous protestation to his players about the way they were playing. So effective was that outburst that the Jackets responded with a 4-run inning.
Yeah, Coach Paul’s outburst worked with his players but I can’t say he was as effective with the umpires.
After his — and Coach Hubbard’s — outburst, the comical calls continued.
Such is the game of baseball.