Why do baseball players and managers argue with umpires if it doesn't do any good?

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Jordan

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The worst that happen (and in many cases it does), is that the player will be ejected from the game. At best, nothing at all will happen. The umpires never change their calls once they make them, whether you argue or not.
 
Players usually do it to vent their frustration. A lot of the times they are having a bad game and take it out on the umpire.

Sometimes managers actually want to get kicked out of the game. It motivates the team and gets the crowd into the game.
 
To show that they actually care about the game. If there was a bad call against your team, you'd want to yell at the umpire. It gets the crowd fired up. And if you're Bobby Cox, what difference does one ejection make? He's number one on the all time list.
 
I think it works because umpires are humans. If you put pressure on them, they will think about what you said. Most of the umpires will not retaliate if players or managers trying to express their feeling, even if the situations were pretty hard core. Especially, when the managers are old and have a lot of experiences, umpires have to pay some respects to them.

However, if you are new to the game and try to argue too hard, umpires might treat your act disrespectful and retaliate on your action. However, he will also remember he had done something about it and will give more favourite calls next time. The game is all about borderline pitches, it is important to make it to your favourite even slightly. Therefore, arguing the calls works.

However, I think players or managers should not lose their temper and argue to hard and get thrown out. That is neither meaningful nor smart.
 
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