godwulf
08-27-2011, 10:50 PM
I was in Tucson last night, watching the Reno Aces, the Diamondbacks' Triple-A team, take on the Tucson Padres, and at one point the Padres had the bases loaded with one out. The batter lined out to an infielder, with all the runners going, who tossed to First to end the inning. A very young umpire signaled for play to continue, ruling that the third out hadn't counted because of the Infield Fly Rule.
Brett Butler, the Aces' skipper, stalked out and got right in the young ump's face and gave him a two-minute lecture, complete with descriptive hand gestures, on the Infield Fly Rule...at the conclusion of which, the ump called over his two colleagues, who took about about a second and a half to tell him that he was wrong. Inning over.
Tonight in Phoenix, after the Diamondbacks' win over the big league Padres, DBacks skipper Kirk Gibson is being interviewed by the press, and, referring to a conversation with one of his relief pitchers late in the game, he said, "I told him I wouldn't dry-hump him, like I did the inning before." This went out on Fox Sports. When they cut away to the commentators, Todd Walsh just said, "Thank God for cable t.v."
Brett Butler, the Aces' skipper, stalked out and got right in the young ump's face and gave him a two-minute lecture, complete with descriptive hand gestures, on the Infield Fly Rule...at the conclusion of which, the ump called over his two colleagues, who took about about a second and a half to tell him that he was wrong. Inning over.
Tonight in Phoenix, after the Diamondbacks' win over the big league Padres, DBacks skipper Kirk Gibson is being interviewed by the press, and, referring to a conversation with one of his relief pitchers late in the game, he said, "I told him I wouldn't dry-hump him, like I did the inning before." This went out on Fox Sports. When they cut away to the commentators, Todd Walsh just said, "Thank God for cable t.v."