MLB suspended Cubs manager Lou Piniella indefinitely and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in Saturday's game.
Among other things, Piniella repeatedly kicked dirt on third base umpire Mark Wegner. What made it even worse is that he didn't even truly believe that Wegner made the wrong call on the play. It was a calculated move designed to fire up his team. We'd take no issue with a month-long suspension. It has to be extremely humiliating to just stand there in full view of 35,000 people when another guy is kicking dirt on you. In any other situation, Piniella would have gotten himself punched in the face and woke up in a hospital bed the next day.
Two other things:
1) What's with kicking your own cap? Shouldn't he have been kicking the umpire's cap around the field? Either way, he looked like a total phokking idiot.
2) Actually, he should have been kicking Angel Pagan's ass all over the field. You're down by a run and there are no outs, so naturally you want to try to risk going to 3rd on a wild pitch. Oh yeah, he was out and it wasn't particularly close. I see "doing the little things" and "fundamentals" have really changed since Busty Shaker was $#!+canned. Corms FA.
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It was old school. You fire up your players, you fire up the fans, they throw s#i+ all over the field and give you a standing ovation -- everybody wins. Or as Rick Morrissey (a Tribune sportswriter, and therefore by necessity, an idiot) (I could crap a better "newspaper" outta my @ss every morning, by they way) so ably summed it up: "The baseball world had been waiting for this, and in some basic, primal way, it was worth it."
It was entertaining as hell. It sure beat watching this fucking team for 15 minutes.
Must have been why they won yesterday. Can Lou get thrown out of every game?
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