Things got really real at a Daytona, Fla., Cubs minor league baseball game Wednesday. After a disagreeable call by an umpire, “music guy” Derek Dye — you know, one of the folks who play “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and other interludes at ballparks nationwide — went with a non-lyrical version of the children’s classic “Three Blind Mice.”
Pretty funny, right? The homeplate umpire doesn’t think so. He ejects Dye from the game. If a music guy getting the heave-ho isn’t a baseball first, it’s certainly up there. And that’s not the end of the ump’s punishment. In the YouTube video above we can hear him demand, “No music for the rest of the night!”
The video comes complete with an epic call from the television play-by-play announcer — “Derek was ejected from the game! Wow! That is SO cool!” — and is currently going viral on the social web.
Dye, for his part, seems to be taking the incident with a sense of humor and reflected on Twitter last night with this message:
