Peeking through the fence

By Mark Etheridge - February 24, 2007

His Jacksonville team beat South Alabama 14-4. Alexander spent the remainder of the game outside the fence with a view of the scoreboard and little else. I caught up with him after the game and conducted my first "through the chain-link fence" postgame interview.

“I guess he didn’t like what I said,” Alexander said. “I certainly wasn’t trying to get thrown out of a game with a big lead. It was quick. I didn’t realize it was coming until he had already got me. I don’t like to get thrown out. I haven’t been thrown out in seven or eight years. To be thrown out that quick startled me. The bad thing about that is in our conference, by being thrown out I won’t be able to coach tomorrow. I don’t think the umpires realize what is it stake when they make that quick calls like that. I never was really on him. I was just trying to let him know the ball went over the “G” on the Regions sign by about four and a half feet.”

First pitch of Auburn/Michigan State is coming up at 4:55 CT.