S.I. Donovan: Feisty Weaver holds court on the art of the ejection

“Re-mem-mem, re-mem-mem-mem-ber oop-shoop”

“Bobby, I was surprised he had that many ejections. To me, Cox is kind of cool headed, not like [Lou] Piniella or Billy [Martin] or myself. Or ... I don’t know if you remember Ralph Houk,” Weaver, now 76, told me the other day from his home in Florida. “I didn’t think Bobby was the excitable type. I guess I was wrong.”

...Weaver recalled a few times when he’d get on the umpires simply because his players, who watched his antics alternately with glee and disgust, demanded it. Those didn’t end very well, either.

“I know, when Gaylord [Perry] pitched against us, for crying out loud, everybody on the bench would be saying ‘Earl, he’s throwing a spitter. Earl, he’s throwing a spitter,’” Weaver remembers with a chuckle. “You tell the ump two or three times, the umpires don’t want to hear no more of it. But you got to say something.”