Asheville Manager Joe Mikulik Meltdown

[crimson6858]

FIRE THE SOUND TECH!!!!!

[bailinnumberguy]

The Asheville Tourists? He's probably just angry because his life's ambition is to manage the Yankees and instead he's managing the Tourists.

[mrtx09]

@bailinnumberguy Well he did play pro in the Astros organization. Did you go pro?

[bailinnumberguy]

@mrtx09 Not in baseball as I'm in a different profession. I'm guessing you didn't either.

[theFRESHmanMohigan]

proud to say that I used to live there

[crimson6858]

FIRE THE SOUND TECH!!!

[QcSp0rts]

The bottle throw is SO EPIC i cant believe it .

[QcSp0rts]

I Laugh everytime . 0:35 hat toss and here we go . 2:22 Bottle gets it .

[thesilverstag]

Where is security?

[crimson6858]

Very funny! This stadium, however, needs to hire a new sound tech.

[musicwarrior]

I think only the recent Jim Leyland pantamime can come close to this.

[manbearpig6288]

did he get called up

[manbearpig6288]

woooooo im from Asheville

[slapcompany]

Let your employees live the values they live at home also at work without seperation. View my channel to live better.

[vidEvWill]

ian stewart married his daughter.

[Sumsumisdaddy]

i was at the game and it was hilarious 

[CoPsSuCk12]

uncle joe you are crazy sometimes

[josephstuckey]

i was at that game 

[Mulcahy10]

lol my dad played minor league ball with him he says he was nuts back then

[CoPsSuCk12]

@Mulcahy10 cool well joe mikulik is my uncle

[vidEvWill]

@CoPsSuCk12 Ian Stewart married your cousin then.

[shrodu]

Look how quickly his head starts to move. XD

[brentam7]

He was my basketball coach and he ripped a toilet out the ground when we lost.

[brentam7]

this guy was my basketball coach when i was 12 and one time we lost he ripped a toilet out of the ground in the locker room.

[CoPsSuCk12]

@brentam7 thats my uncle joe he has anger prombles

[icanmyshoetie]

lmao @ 0:33

[thedeadbeats]

awesome background music

[deeby91]

yoyo, can anyone tell me what it means to cover up homeplate with dirt? is it like disrespect or something? sorry I dont watch baseball. anyone?

[JackieAces]

@deeby91 yeah the whole taking the bases and covering home with dirt is saying "hey ump, you apparently can't see these, so what does it matter if they're gone?" also it's the ump's job to keep the plate clean, so he has to brush it off.

[deeby91]

@JackieAces haha, awesome, thanks

[ThePuckrock101]

How apt,

"You've lost that loving feeling!"

That's why I love baseball.

[PleaseShakeWell]

Proud to be from Asheville.

[gungasc]

so a fan can run around like an idiot and then have the security team pounce on him, but this guy can do all that shit and not get tazed? or any type of shit? wtf is this? the WCW?

[Localdrummerweb]

@gungasc Yeah he can do all this shit because people paid to come see him and his team play ball..they didnt pay to see some fat ass run all over the field to get attention he was deprived of as a child

[Trainian]

The slide into 2nd was priceless

[dominicanboy1793]

i love baseball

[pwnage90210]

thumbs up if you think he planned to do that before the game

[KyleCagle3]

Good ol' mikulik, that's why it pays to live in Asheville!! Go tourists!

[Baseball5030]

disgrace. people like that should be fired from baseball.

[americangirlmusician]

lol I just saw this guy at the RiverDogs game. He even tipped his hat at the end there!

[LTDANMAN44]

he snaps like a rubber band

[SoggyNoodles13]

lol when he was yelling at eh guys face it was like a funny charlie chaplin silent movie that was fast forwarded

[IcedEarth426]

There's no crying in baseball

[delhome60321]

I live near Asheville, and I'm a big Tourists fan.... WE HAVE THE GREATEST MANAGER IN BASEBALL!!!!! I just wish he had slapped the ump for the bullcrap call!

[mrjeepman1989]

its funny they just let the managers make an ass of them selves lol

[Geno2733]

this guy did a faster job of covering home plate than Phil Wellman.

[papertigers426]

"theres no crying in baseball!" epic sound guys!

[nachoman1210]

haha that was pretty funny

[orioles001]

haha, after 3 or so years this is still hilarious

[wantyoubad2233]

very very funny !

Last song "hit the road jack" much this movie lol

[young89er]

You know who won the SAL that year? The BLUECLAWS,

[DJKD0gg]

gee with shitty calls like that one there's no wonder they won. Lexington won because they had Clemens and were handed the SAL on a platter.

[throwerfan22]

wow... he's acting like a 4 year old throwing a temper tantrum....

that's retarded. kinda funny for about 10 seconds, but he took it wayyy over the edge....

[Greeko1959]

I saw him throw a toilet out on the field. He is hilarious!

[DJKD0gg]

Funny how you all are calling Coach Mikulik a loser and a baby......if the umpires had been calling the game correctly instead of letting the son of an ACTUAL classless loser get away with an awful call this wouldn't have happened. Thank you coach for showing some character and standing up for your team!! Screw these umps, screw Clemens and screw Lexington!!

[francobobfred]

well, he IS a loser AND a baby. The call was correct and I am a Tourists fan.

[spacemanspiff33]

@DJKD0gg THATS what you call class!?!?!?!??

[DJKD0gg]

more class than Roger Clemens has.....at least Mikulik doesn't purposely throw a 95 mph fastball at someone when something didn't go his way.

[Mikeeecent]

bush league

[ssssupernova]

Asheville is full of weirdos and Mikulik is representing to some extent. I don't know whether to be proud or sad.

[darkmachete]

You should be sad. Because Asheville is full of weirdos. But they aren't angry weirdos.

[kenfo0]

he is an insolent child...a sign of what is wrong w/society. getting in another's personal space, carrying on in public, creating a nuisance, delaying everyone else. when has an official ever changed a call based on throwing a temper tantrum? never.

[scottmcg666]

My favorite part - like a true minor league manager, he leaves through the outfield wall. Does anyone have a video of him constructing a chair & water-cooler barricade in front of the umpires' locker room? His comments in the post-game press conference are priceless.

[darkmachete]

I also loved the sound guys in this :3

[darkmachete]

Thats representing Asheville REAL well Mr. Mikulik.

[NorthShoreInnovation]

Sound guy got to hit ALL the buttons

[Chkee97]

I was at this game. I sit right behind home plate so I got to hear almost everything. Mikulik was a fucking mook, still is too. He really caught shit from everyone in the stands. Hilarious as hell, but Mukulik is a classless loser.

[WastingDeath]

That is the greatest Sound Guy ever!!!

[fakestaged]

That was fake. Nothing ever interesting happens in baseball. Staged.

[theduk3at]

haha, exactly

I hear ya

[chipit566]

the one time my city is on the news that i can remember is for this thats sad

[Joker24Batman]

Minor League Sycos

[TheFett007]

Was all that stuff really playing over the speakers?! What a cheeky bunch of sound guys!

[DGF2099]

@TheFett007 You just know they were laughing their asses off in the booth while doing that!

[thedudedude56]

@TheFett007 its a famous skit serch up whos on first its hilarious

[TbranVIDS]

haha this is so funny!

[giratin00]

WTH?!

[Maxholflild]

Fantastic what a psycho reminds me of me..

[statboyzach]

Classic! I work for the game day staff for the Tourists and Joe is actually a pretty nice guy. He's had a few rants but nothing that compares to this. He doesn't really talk about the rant much though

[BrandoMansVideos]

i was at that game when it happened! although i was only 12 when i was there but it was funny as HELL!

[puppetmaster1236]

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[TWSNorthStar]

Amen to that. Because he sure isn't making it easy.

[kycowboyntv]

hahaha classic

i must applaud the umps for keeping their cool and just ignoring him though

[carlooch69]

Amazing

[aceofdiamonds122]

i love the abbot and costello at the beginning.

[LextownBaseballer11]

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahah­ahahah! this is hillarious!!! i remember being there when this happened. i know the batboy who looks like he's gonna crap his pants when all those bats get thrown out hahahahahahah

[skavoovied]

More meds, please.

The music played in the background is classic....

[mjbosch]

When he threw 2nd base that was AWSOME and when he threw the bat

[JLash14]

haha that dude is AWESOME!!!!

[lilvjdude]

....and then he went home to smack his wife around.

[SexyToker420]

I was at this game, and it was hilarious! They don't show it on here, but at one point he went into the Legends storage closet and starting taking EVERYTHING out and throwing it on the field. It was great.

[DrePants44]

I think this is how he acts day-to-day.

"GIVE ME A SHAKE WITH SOME FRIES!!!!!!!!!!"

[Jimmel920]

The crying baby and "Hit the Road, Jack" on the loudspeakers is the icing on the cake

[texasrocks777]

hilarious

[sk8soldskool]

lol, the umps thinkin wtf mate, bbq???

[chipit566]

i saw this on sport center

hes still the manager to

[mushrule94]

I can not believe the manager accually went out there and started to yell and do all of these things over one call.

[vgmaster9]

I'd be rolling on the floor laughing if Joe Torre of the Yankees was exactly like that XD.

[incuchaynie]

Awesome, the poor ball boy! Mikulik: "Can you see that?!" HAHAHAHAHA

[lesa9410]

wow i wanna hear what he is accually saying!

[nextg]

FSN Florida sent me here

[marcbrandofina]

Hahaha I love the music and sound effects they're playing in the background!!

[GodslaveRocks]

Hey...Mik just became the winningest manager in the history of Asheville baseball -- and that encompasses some 85 years!

[bsblplayer232]

wow...

hes definitley proving hes mature enough for the big leauges

lol

[goYankeesgo]

Why do they allways pick up a base and throw it?

The guy in change of the music is hilarious!!!!

Go Yankees Go!!!!

[bodybydada]

I think the idea behind picking up the base and throwing it is that since the umpire who allegedly blew the call can't see the base anyway, it won't be missed. Same idea behind covering up home plate with dirt. But it's also just a vehicle for unchecked aggression, as you can see.

[DGF2099]

@bodybydada I happen to have a couple game-used bases, and whenever I see one get thrown, I laugh because they weigh like 12 pounds apiece.

[ki11erkeenan]

Wow...just wow.

[Infinity161]

You gotta love the music/sound bites!

[bckyi]

reminds me of marios meltdown when luigi fucked peached

[chipit566]

lol cartman

[chipit566]

lol i live in asheville

[goldenryano]

the manager is acting like a little kid. if acts like this in aaa imagine what he would be like in the big league.

[1E9M8S6]

kid should've stayed out of the way.

[Bmille1965]

what a loser, great example for the kids and he almost hit a batboy with a bat

[nflfootballfan]

its been about a year ago on that tirade.. he fined only $1000 and suspended 7 games lol

[fullmetal2405]

who says there's no excitement in baseball?

[mattt1991]

how can you say that this guy has hurt ashville?

before this i had never even heard of the ashville tourists

[DrEvilScientistMan]

He gets owned by the people running the soundboard.

[erikabadger]

Are you guys KIDDING??? He is TOTALLY sticking UP for Asheville!!! (I'd bet you're just a bunch of horse-loving folks from KY...) Go Joe!

[Chkee97]

Sticking up for Asheville? The ump made the correct call, I should know because I was there. The play in question wasn't even close. I even got a copy of that tape from the Legends front office. Mukulik made a total ass out of himself and almost hit the batboy. Childish, yet thugish if you ask me. How you or anyone from Assville can be proud of someone like that is beyond me. The man didn't even apologize for his behavior.

[ashvlfrk]

i cant belive it asheville is a loving nice place he just ruined it it makes me ashmaed for living hear in NC

[mallorydkc]

And the umpires had just come back from being on strike!!! Gee, I wonder why they went on strike in the first place. could it be because of idiots like Joe Mikulik

[jsnyder2006]

he was totally calm and collected. what's all the complaints about?

[UNCCTF]

Gah, I laugh harder and harder every time I watch that. It's like watching a kindergartner who's not getting the candy he wants at the grocery store. Awesome.

[faningo276]

'Best use of props'. That was great.

[SeenGod]

thats awesome.. lol

[udfan4life]

lmao

[kivideos]

if u realize u can actually make a poetry out of this argument becuase everything rhymes hahhaa

[cps081]

The best parts of this clip are "the spike" of the water bottle and the fact the dude is sporting a sweet pornstache.

[d820m]

why is there nothing from "Sweet" Lou Pinella on here. Here in Seattle, his beefs with the umps are still talked about.

[AliEnosDesch]

LOL! Even all the way here in Canada Lou is well remembered for his episodes. I LOVE Lou's passion for the game. Did you hear him when he was commentating with Fox during the playoffs this year? The way he talks about baseball shows his love for it, and that is infectious. I could listen to him talk baseball all day!

[DrEvilScientistMan]

There isn't any footage of Major League feuds Pinella has had with umps because all of that footage can't be posted on YouTube without expressed written consent from Major League Baseball. Which is why there's no good MLB clips up on youtube.

[kingdomoftheworm]

The Piniella argument in Chicago is up.

[DrEvilScientistMan]

Yeah, but those vids were taken by fans with their cellphones. I meant that no footage of an MLB broadcast can be shown.

[STUPIDVIDE0S]

Funny as hell...lmfao

[WhiteIce1118]

lol omg, that was too funny. The sounds from the press box fit soo good. LMAO at the superman dive onto second base, why did he do that?

[papoh]

Lose your cool, live with the shame forever in youtube induced infamy....

[bagpiper2005]

Wow. It's people like that who make our jobs as umpires difficult!

[critter2]

acutally if you read a rule book. the second base umpire could of ejected him right away. but he wattied. for you can not agure balls/ stirkes

safe or out its FINAL CALL

[tthecat]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn­/page2/story?page=caple/060721­&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab4pos2 for an article about this manager.

[baddakutachi]

I'm amazed that those umpires can keep their cool with the way that guy acted.  Now did you guys add the music or was that from the announcers box?

[dweezy35]

It was the nat sound from the speakers.

[critter2]

umpires have to keep their cool or else they could loose their job. not even 15% of umpires that go to school even make it to the big leauges. i do umpire little leauge (not bad) but yea you have to keep your cool.

[louielou77]

i wonder what this guy's wife did to him the night before.

[niftymatt]

lol, what a dumbass. Since he already went all out, why didn't he just steal a base and run off with it when he was exiting?

[djsstorm]

lmao with the "Who's on First?" routine, matched the start of the argument well lol

[TheBman10]

hahha

[tjp1223]

wow lmfao best footage of a guy losing it on the diamond EVER

[mattman933]

Thanks for posting this! We made it The Video Of The Week at TheRiseGuys.Com

[tesla121]

I wrote to the Asshole Terrorists.. err the Asheville Tourists and this was there reply:

"Any decisions on termination (Colorado Rockies) or discipline (also the South Atlantic League) are strictly out of the control of the Asheville Tourists. As weird as it sounds, Joe is not an employee of ours.

Chris Smith

Assistant General Manager

Asheville Tourists Baseball"

[Bunzi]

LMFAO that is classic!