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"[Protecting players] is some of them, but not a hell of a lot of them
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Cox is respected for protecting his players, getting between them and the umps before a rhubarb starts
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One part of getting ejected that Cox and Weaver have in common is that their arguments many times begin off the field
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To some, though, getting tossed says a lot about passion and dedication
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"Is the commissioner coming.," he wryly asked a couple of reporters the other day
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The ump then took out his watch and gave Weaver one minute to leave the field
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In the long history of baseball there have been fighting managers (McGraw, who managed parts of seasons from 1899-1932, was known as "Little Napoleon") and wild-eyed managers (Billy Martin and Lou Piniella come to mind)
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He'll jog out of the dugout and get in someone's face
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Weaver was the same way, though he cautions that the main reason he went out there to go jaw-to-jaw was often the most overlooked
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The second time it happened, he barely made it to home plate for the pregame exchange of lineup cards before he was run
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Weaver was a sub-6-foot ball of spittle and curses and screams, a brilliant baseball mind who terrorized umpires and delighted fans -- at least the ones in Baltimore -- during an 18-year managerial career in which he won more than 2,500 games, four American League pennants and the 1970 World Series
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There have been managers known almost specifically for their mouthy ways (Leo "the Lip" Durocher)
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I don't know if you remember Ralph Houk," Weaver, now 76, told me the other day from his home in Florida
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"I didn't think Bobby was the excitable type
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When Weaver wasn't back in the tunnel leading to the dugout sneaking a cigarette, he was up on the rail giving the home plate umpire all sorts of grief
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And you don't do it to fire up the ballclub," Weaver said
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Weaver grabbed the watch, reared back and flung it into the visitors' dugout, where it skidded to a stop under the Orioles' bench
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"You do it because you're mad at the umpire and feel that he's taken away something from your ballclub"
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(After he was thrown out of the second game of that 1985 doubleheader, before it even started, he kicked dirt on umpire Ted Hendry, who then kicked some back
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More than a few times over the years, umpires have looked in to cool him down when he complains about how the home plate umpire is calling the game
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"I'm behind the plate trying to do my job, and there's this little voice in my ear the whole night"
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"If my arm was still good," Weaver told reporters after the game, "I would've thrown it into the stands"
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Weaver would scream at the top of his lungs
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"Bobby, I was surprised he had that many ejections
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Once, back in the waning days of the 1985 season, the dean of disputatious big-league managers, Earl Weaver, was thrown out of both games of a doubleheader in Yankee Stadium
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Earl, he's throwing a spitter,'" Weaver remembers with a chuckle
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And that's what Cox still does -- like few others ever have.
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In the third inning of the first game on that late-September day, after Weaver already had been out on the field three times to argue something or other, umpire Jim Evans finally tired of the show and tossed the diminutive Baltimore skipper
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(Though nothing, I'd imagine, like some of Weaver's famously profane outbursts, one of which can be seen and heard on a well-know Web site for videos, if you care to call it up while ushering the kids out of the room.) Cox may even remove his cap once in a while and fling it to the ground
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To me, Cox is kind of cool headed, not like [Lou] Piniella or Billy [Martin] or myself
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Other than their sheer volume of ejections -- Cox is at 130, one short of McGraw's record, and Weaver ended his career at 97, currently fourth on the list -- the two managers don't have much in common when it comes to arguing with umpires
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But few, if any, made the distinctive mark on the game that Weaver did, and he's the only one (among the top five in manager ejections) that Cox actually has managed against
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He'll clearly say things that are better left unprinted
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"You tell the ump two or three times, the umpires don't want to hear no more of it
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Weaver was renowned for turning his cap backward, stretching to his tiptoes and getting nose-to-nose with the men in blue like Evans and Weaver's personal foil, longtime umpire Ron Luciano
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Many of his ejections have been over arguing balls and strikes
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Cox, who has been asked about his pending record just about every day for the past several weeks -- he actually already owns the record for managers, but McGraw was thrown out 14 times as a player, too -- is about fed up with the whole topic
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Not to be outdone, Weaver squatted down, picked up a handful of infield dirt and threw it on Hendry's pants.) Cox, now 66 and in his 26th year of managing, isn't nearly that combative
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Neither Cox nor Weaver -- who squared off against each other in the 1980s, when Cox was with the Blue Jays and Weaver had made a comeback with the Orioles -- is especially proud of his place among the most-tossed managers in the history of the game
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And that, like it or not, is what the Braves' Bobby Cox will be measured against in the next few days, or the next week or two, or whenever it is that he finally breaks John McGraw's major-league record for getting thrown out of games
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"Working a game with him in the dugout is like wearing a headset," former big-league umpire Marty Springstead once told the Washington Post
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Cox, especially when his team is at bat, is often found at the end of the Braves' dugout yelling for his players
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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
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In fact, both say they're often "embarrassed" about it
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Once in a while, it seems as if Cox will get into it with umpires just to fire up his team
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"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
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