Piniella--Four game suspension.

Eh, I believe when you get oiled-up crowds riled the way this tirade did, it goes beyond littering.

If one of those sturdy souvenir cups had nailed a player, it becomes something else. And, it should be pointed out, Wegner got the call right.

 

Damn near hit the ump with it, too; I'll bet he got resin on the ump's trousers. I wondered what was going on when he started elbow crawling up to the back of the mound.

There has to be a place for a guy who can put on a performance like that, but it may not be minor league baseball. A few lessons from the Marlon Brando school of histrionics, just to tamp him down a bit, and he'll be ready for prime time.

Or, he can get a job with the Army at Fort Benning, attacking trainees with CX gas grenades around midnight. Sportsbruh can be his assistant.

(Oops; I guess we're db'ing sportshack's "tantrum" thread here. When am I going to learn to read every message on every thread? Until then, would anyone like to see a picture of a giant wild/domestic hog?)

 

Has there ever been a manager trade? Can we swap Torre and Piniella, and start over?

 

Once again, Bud Selig shows he has no backbone whatsoever.

Pete Rose visibly pushes an ump and gets 30 games. Lou gets FOUR games for kicking dirt and (allegedly) making contact with an ump? Ridiculous.

Too bad Roger Goodell couldn't double dip as baseball commish. Lou'd probably get suspended the rest of the season.

 

Lou needs the break.

 

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

On Aug. 3, 1960, the fourth-place Indians traded manager Jimmy Dykes straight up to the sixth-place Tigers for their manager, Joe Gordon, marking the only trade in-season of managers in major league history.

 

Four games for making contact with the umpire. Would have been nice if they had, you know, evidence, that he actually kicked the little fucker. Wonder how many games Froemming is going to get for initiating contact with Piniella?

Wegner needed to be smart enough to realize what Piniella was doing and just walk away. Instead the little man just made it worse. Good umpires know to walk away.

They had to give him something but four games is too much. Interesting that the last three games happily coincide with the Cubs' visit to the commissioner's favorite ballpark.

 

My suggestion, if for nothing else than to spice things up for the Chicago media this summer, was Piniella for Guillen.

 

Any snotty ump wearing reflector glasses on the field should get 10 games, minimum.

 

that little fucker. i wish lou woulda made some serious contact.

 

That's some solid research right there.

 

If they would stop choking they wouldn't have to hear his criticism. Secondly, poor decision on the suspension, he didn't do anything that most managers haven't done at some point. Bud again trying to act tough on a soft issue but he disappears when the sports integrity is on the line.