Showing posts with label Mt. Piniella erupts. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Mount Piniella Finally Erupts

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.