After a recent decision by CSU’s Campus Recreation Department, head CSU club baseball coach Mike Abernathy has been suspended for the rest of the season and assistant coach Zac Myslivy has been fired, both for making sexually explicit comments during a spring break confrontation with an umpire in Prescott, Ariz. The incident took place during a March 14 double-header with Yavapai College. The two teams have a history of dispute. In a meeting before the second game, to prevent an altercation Abernathy walked away after presenting the team’s lineup card. Home plate umpire John Schiller said in a report that Abernathy was asked twice to return to the meeting with the warning that he would be ejected if he didn’t comply. The umpire ejected Abernathy. At that point, according to players who witnessed the altercation, the umpire allegedly made remarks about the Rams being a “second rate” team and “classless,” prompting Abernathy to engage in an argument with the official. Schiller reported Abernathy made sexually vulgar remarks to both him and Yavapai head coach Sky Smeltzer. Abernathy was quoted as saying “Both of you umpires have (Smeltzer’s) d**k in your mouths and have c*m dripping down your cheeks,” according to the incident report filled out by Schiller. In an email to CSU, Smeltzer corroborated Schiller’s claim that Abernathy made the explicit comments and also accused the Rams of damaging the locker room they were using after discovering a punched hole in the drywall.
During that same game, after repeated heckling from the crowd, Myslivy allegedly directed sexually explicit comments to a group of Yavapai softball players in attendance, causing his termination. When interviewed, Myslivy admitted to responding to the softball players. “I asked them if they were the (Yavapai baseball) team c*m rag,” Myslivy said. “There were comments that got under my skin along with the situation with the umpires and I said some things I probably shouldn’t have said.”
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