Sensing his team needed a kick in the pants, Wichita Wingnuts manager Kash Beauchamp set out to get ejected on purpose. He even told his pitching coach to get ready.

The former Bangor Lumberjacks manager held true to his word, but took it a little too far, letting loose a spit-flying, shoe-slamming, armpit-showing tirade that left him standing on the field in his red socks and earned him a four-game suspension.

“I regret it, I really do,” Beauchamp said Friday after the independent American Association handed down the suspension. “I don’t regret getting ejected and I don’t regret trying to fire up my team, but I think I went too far, there’s no doubt about it.”

Beauchamp managed Bangor’s independent Northeast League team in 2003 and 2004 before leaving to take the same job in the California-based Golden League. He led the team to one playoff appearance and an overall record of 99-88 over both seasons.

Beauchamp’s meltdown came in the nightcap of a doubleheader against Sioux Falls on Wednesday in Kansas.

The Wingnuts had lost a blowout to the Canaries in the series opener, followed by a disheartening 2-1 loss in the first game of the doubleheader. Believing his team was still flat, Beauchamp warned pitching coach Luke Robertson that he was probably going to get ejected on the next bad call in an effort to bring some life to his players.

He followed through after a check-swing call by plate umpire Blake Felix in the second inning, throwing down his hat and letting loose a flurry of expletives as he charged from the third-base coaching box.

Beauchamp then went nose-to-nose with Felix at the plate, bobbing his head around like some kind of pregame giveaway as he argued.

“Looking back at the video, I didn’t realize my head was bouncing around like that,” he said. “I’m lucky I didn’t dislocate my freakin’ neck.”

But the bobblehead move was only the beginning.

After kicking dirt around the plate, Beauchamp ripped off his shoe and waved it in front of Felix, then pulled back his sleeve and stuck his armpit in the umpire’s face – two gestures meant to tell Felix that he stinks.

The mostly one-sided argument continued with Beauchamp accidentally kicking off his other shoe, leaving him to dance around in red stocking socks, then throwing his chewing tobacco to the ground.

“I did not spit like Roberto Alomar – it was nothing even remotely close to what Roberto Alomar did – but in talking some of it (the chew) flew out and hit him in the face,” Beauchamp said. “When I saw that, I backed off and took my dip out. That was probably the only moment of sanity I really had because I wouldn’t spit on my worst enemy.”

It didn’t slow him down, though.

Beauchamp picked up his second shoe and slammed it to the turf, then went into the Wingnuts’ dugout and fished out a batting doughnut from a bag, pairing it with another to make a mock pair of eyeglasses before slamming both weights down.

After more than a minute of rage, Beauchamp started to wind down. He retrieved his hat from near the coach’s box, then shouted a few more choice words at Felix as he walked toward the dugout.

Beauchamp, still walking around in his red socks, waited momentarily at the rail for a bat boy to bring his shoes, then finally walked off the field.

“I just kind of melted down right there,” Beauchamp said. “I just thought I could get the club fired up, but obviously looking at the tape, it definitely went further than I wanted it to go. I lost my focus, I lost my cool and I did some things I regret.”