...says Denzel Valentine of Big Ten Tourney favorite MSU, which is 5-7 in its last 12 games. Cumong, man.
Coaches' timeouts are worse. Basketball teams should get one, full stop.
"Though I received no official response to these sophisticated and elegant tweets to the Illini Athletic Department, I would like to think that Beckman spent the evening prank calling everyone in Illinois named George McLellan and then ordering an absurd amount of hats off an internet haberdashery to hoard in his home's hat annex."
in re: is GRIII on a tear
Petway nails threes to death metal. Seriously.
Mike Lantry, 1972
Career-enders coming fast and furious.
"Tonight we were reminded that Michigan is five years further down the road. Which means we have a long road ahead. The State Farm Center renovations start in a few hours and will run for three years. Let’s hope that when they’re complete, we’re Michigan."
unfortunate break for Boilers
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Ya I'm guessing that ump isn't going anywhere. You should start a petition though.
prince often looks weak in my opinion...
If the dude has cabrera in front of him and two solid hitters behind. Should be hitting much better. imdao (in my dumb ass opinion, cause what do I know)
jdon
His feelings must have been hurt. If I was Leyland, they'd have to pull me off the field.
First and foremost the first pitch was at least 6 inches high AND 6 inches outside. It was a HORRIBLE called strike. The second pitch was almost the same pitch. You have the best player in the game up to bat and 45,000 paying customers there to see exactly this moment, and this dipshit umpire runs him out in the middle of an at-bat? Jim Leyland under-reacted. He should have gone all Earl Weaver on his ass.
Devils advocate- now I don't know exactly what an ump can toss a guy for. But miggy beefed the first one, then the second. He wasn't volatile or anything, but he did say "that's fucking horrible/terrible". Something to that effect after the second one.
And I don't think that should be an auto ejection, but who knows.
And I've never seen an ejection based on a similar level of argument. That was just f*cking brutal.
On the bright side... George Campbell.
Fairchild is single. Because otherwise he would know what an "argument" is!!
Simpy mouthing off should NOT be cause to throw a player from the game. Fans, who are the reason the game exist, pay to see guys like Cabrera play. MLB know this, why don't the Umps? The Umps only have jobs because of the player.
I agree with the threshold part. But that doesn't mean the threshold should be different based on the talent of the player. A superstar shouldn't be able to mouth off or go crazier and get away with because he is a superstar.
This didn't happen here. But I don't agree with the "people pay to see this great guy play so he gets a long-ass leash" thought.
though. I have seen plenty of players be more vocal than that in games, and not get tossed. The umpire also has to be smart enough to know the situation, he potentially altered the outcome of the game, one that may be important for a team in a playoff race.
though. I have seen plenty of players be more vocal than that in games, and not get tossed. The umpire also has to be smart enough to know the situation, he potentially altered the outcome of the game, one that may be important for a team in a playoff race.
done that before.
Tell that to the NBA.
I would love to. The NBA is the poster-child for that shit
No, he said something much worse.
"Su mamá hace tamales leve" were his exact words. I would have ejected him too.
I agree with you. Throwing out the best player in the game when he wasn't demonstrative is ridiculous. That said, both pitches to Miggy looked like strikes.
First pitch was definitely not a strike. I think Miggy was looking for the benefit of the doubt on the second one, but Umpy wasn't having it. Complete disgrace to his profession. I hate nothing more than when the umpire makes the game about them and tries to put on a show. People paid good money to see Cabrera play today, and he did nothing to have that right taken away from him.
First pitch was a strike in my opinion. Pitch fooled the catcher which made it look like a ball, but it was in the strike zone.
Disagree. That first pitch was up, and probably outside.
prior to that though. Phillies pitcher actually threw a couple of pitches in the first inning that were strikes, but they were deemed to be a smidge up by the ump.
I think Rod Allen had the line of the day as soon as Miggy was tossed "Whoa, we did not come here to see you today Chad Fairchild."
thick skinned enough to take a player saying a couple of words to them, they flat out out have no business being an umpire. Ridiculous to alter a game like, based on a couple of words. I don't care what those words are, the umpire should be able to take itl ike a big boy.
Terrible call. At least we have big Don Kelly.
My biggest pet peeve of baseball...umpires with ultra ego personalities trying to steal the show. C. B Bucknor and Angel Hernandez to name a few
In the ump's defense, both strikes were borderline okay calls. In Miggy's defense, he didn't do anything demonstrative and was simply talking. No reason to toss him. Oh and Don Kelly is pretty bad.
Guy ends up scoring a couple runs and has the go ahead RBI. We don't need him.
PS not pleased with your post jacking Salvatore
So no "post jacking".
ELE- Everybody love everybody
Lou Pinella when you need him.
Who is Steve Fairchild?
The douchebag Umps name is Chad but Steve came to mind first.
The first pitch was questionable especially with the frame job by Ruiz, he backhanded the ball back into the zone thats usually a tell tale sign its a ball.
The 2nd pitch looked perfect so I don't think Miguel had a beef on it but he clearly didn't make any motions and wasn't showing up the ump so the ejection is a pretty awful call. I'm sure Leyland will have an interesting post game, at least I hope he does because Chad Fairchild is a joke.
As a Detroit fan, I always under- why do officials hate us so much?
Especially Hockey when the officials took away a series winning goal from Chicago? That is definitely "Detroit Hate"
I'm sorry, I'm a Detroit sports fan but this whole "The refs hate us" bit is a joke. Refs and umps screw every team over all the time. Since you probably watch mostly Detroit sports you only witness bad calls against Detroit and still forget all of the generous calls we get too.
having listened to sports radio in alternate cities I think most fans are stupid... detroit, as a whole, suffers from a dearth of perspective driven mostly by the fact that we know nothing about anyone else on any other team, with the exception of football to which I credit fantasy football...
it is what it is homie
Still too many umps who just like to take advantage of their authority. Like a bad cop.
Brazilian soccer referees lose their heads over less than what this twatwagon did.
Uh, the ref that got decapitated by fans stabbed a player to death.
what you did there
Crash must have call the ump a cocksucker.
A Major League umpire should not be that thin-skinned.
same ump who tossed Leyland and the pitcher (Putkonen?) against the Sox with no warnings given
That is one of the worst calls/ejections I have ever seen. It is a totally different game if cabby is sitting in a 2-0 or even 1-1 count. Heck he still might have hit one out down 0-2. Either way love how Leyland sticks up for his boys, for all his flaws he knows how to do that right.
I didn't want to start a whole new thread for this, but this joke of an ump is leading MLB with 8 ejections. 2 were today and 2 were in the White Sox game. Half of his ejections are against the Tigers
that. Not exactly shocking that he would lead the league in ejections, with that thin of skin.
Eric Gregg would have liked this strike zone.
Bases loaded again. Let's see how long it takes Fairchild to eject Fielder now.
What do you expect? He's arguing balls and strikes when a strike gets called looking, with the guy that leads all of baseball in ejections. Cabrera should know better. Especially with the bases juiced. Argue after the potential punchout, not the two previous pitches.
