"You're gone!"

Ejections in baseball are becoming a vanishing entertaining act. A human element is missing. Certainly, don't believe umpires, managers, coaches and players are becoming passive robots.

However, since the 2014 arrival of replay reviews, those animated arguments that led to a decline of ejections. Technology has done it.

Baseball is experimenting with cameras in the Minor Leagues to call balls and strikes. If that ever reaches the Majors, it will curtail even more arguments. Argue balls and strikes with a home-plate umpire and you are automatically gone. But how do you argue with a camera? Oh, there will still be a human umpire behind home plate to deliver a call that is made by that camera. Can't argue with that ump. He didn't make the call. He's just the messenger.

• Phillies alumni

A couple of years ago, baseball-reference.com added ejections to their primary managerial stats tables. Ejections date back to 1889.

Phillies ejection nuggets

Hall of Famer Harry Wright managed the Phillies for 10 seasons (1884-1893) and had zero ejections. Sticking to Philadelphia managers, Connie Mack, 50 years with the A's (1901-50), also had zero.

Most by Phillies managers? Charlie Manuel had 41, which matches his uniform number. He's followed by Jim Fregosi (23), Larry Bowa (22), Gene Mauch (20) and Danny Ozark (14).

Larry Bowa had 36 ejections wearing a Phillies uniform, 23 as a manager, eight as a player and five as a coach. While Spring Training ejections aren't tabulated, Bow did get run March 9, 2002, at Jack Russell Stadium, drawing a one-day suspension during the season. Unofficially, he gets credit for the last Spring Training ejection at Jack Russell Stadium unless there was one in 2003. If there was, who's the most logical victim?

In Joe Girardi's two seasons as the Phillies' manager, he's been ejected six times, four coming in 2021. His career total for 13 seasons as a manager is 42 in 2,004 games as a manager.

Most unusual ejections

Three that come to mind.

• Relief pitcher John Boozer was ejected without throwing a pitch in a game against the New York Mets. He was warming in the bottom of the seventh when he put his fingers to his mouth, a violation of the anti-spitball rule that had been introduced that year. Home-plate umpire Ed Vargo gave Boozer two warnings, calling a ball to batter Bud Harrelson three times -- the last resulting in the pitcher's ejection, along with manager Gene Mauch. Not many people may remember the incident, as the May 2, 1968, Shea Stadium crowd was only 9,795.

• Then, I remember a situation in which Jim Bunning asked for a new ball. The home-plate umpire refused as baseball was trying to speed up the game. Mauch sprinted out of the dugout, grabbed the ball, spiked it with his right foot and handed it to the umpire. New ball for Bunning, heave-ho for Mauch.

• Finally, the late Wilbur Snapp, Jack Russell Stadium organist (1982-86), drew national attention when he was ejected by an umpire after playing "Three Blind Mice" following a questionable call during a Clearwater Phillies game on June 25, 1985. The ump either had thin skin or no sense of humor. Obviously, that umpire's hearing was excellent.