Bobby Valentine gets a chewing gum rebuttal from umpire during on-field argument (pic)

Everyone knows that being hit with wayward spittle is a hazard of the job when it comes to heated managers vs. umpire arguments in baseball.
Being hit with a flying piece of bubblegum, however, is something much more unexpected -

— though perhaps oddly preferable to just being hit with someone else's saliva. Watch as umpire Gary Darling loses his cud while arguing with Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine over a close play involving Marlon Byrd in the ninth inning of Friday's 6-4 loss to the Phillies.

his reaction makes it cla#sic [pic]