Umpire threat and action

1. If the batter is not in the box, we ain't playing. If the foot is touching but inside, that's fine.

2. If the batter won't enter the box, strike without a pitch, repeat...

3. It seems this umpire was a bit overzelous or untrained. Was he assuming the closeness of the Batters foot to the line would take him out of the box should he contact a ball? Bad assumption IMO.

4. If the foot or feet are completely outside the lines and on the ground upon contact, out.

5. To direct a batter where in the box to stand is way out of line IMO.

I just can't picture what the batter was doing to gain such a response from the umpire. So will lay blame on poor umpiring without further information.

It sounds like it could be a couple of things. Most likely either an OOO or an untrained umpire. The other possiblity is there is more to what led up to the conversation. Either way the PU shouldn't be instructing the batter where to stand unless he is truly out of the box before the pitch.
If a batter wants to stand all the way forward but is inthe box legally then I'm never going to say a word. Some guys just weight shift so they can get away with being that far forward. If they stride then they most likely will be out of the box on the swing but I'm still not going to coach him on how to avoid it.

Thanks for your imput. Nothing led up to this, it was the hitters first at bat, second pitch.

I know there are always 2 or even 3 sides to a story, but lacking the officials viewpoint, Id have to lean towards OOO.

Like most here, I just cant imagine the amount of dialogue with the batter here...

Same PU, a player's bat flew out of his hands and hit the back fence near the dugout. Was told if he does it again he will be ejected from the game. What is OOO? Thanks all.

OOO is inside umpire-speak for an "OVERLY OFFICIOUS OFFICIAL".....one who feels the need to interject himself into every situation.....

In my old chapter they were also called "New patches"