Video of manager Phillip Wellman's eruption/meltdown during a 2007 Class AA Mississippi game made him famous via countless airings on ESPN, YouTube, and newscasts on virtually every local TV station in America. It says something about Wellman's otherwise solid reputation in the Braves organization that he kept his job after that incident. Not only that, some 14 months later he's in uniform with the major-league Braves, set to spend the remainder of the season in what amounts to the coaching version of a September call-up. "I'm looking forward to these next two weeks," said Wellman, 45, a former minor-league player who never experienced the major leagues in any capacity before Tuesday. "It's a good way to end the season."
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution YouTube - Phillip Wellman blows up Braves minor-league manager Wellman called up | ajc.com
09-17-2008, 07:38 PM
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