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I was watching the Yankees vs. Redsox game last night. Home plate umpire (Greg Gibson I think) was catching flack about his zone early and ran the an assistant coach(hitting coach I think) for arguing balls and strikes.
An inning or two later, Gibson calls a poorly framed pitch a strike and Redsox manager Terri Francona comes charging out of the dug. Gibson starts to make the "you're outta here" motion, stops as he starts to cock his arm back because he's thought better of it for the moment. He then asks Francona if he is coming out to argue balls and strikes (you could read his lips on the replay)? Francona must have said yes, because Gibson then tossed him.
While the announcers are watching the replay of the incident, Jim Kaat comments on the first almost ejection of Francona and ponders, "Is that an umpires balk?" Maybe you had to watch it, but at the time my wife and I were cracking up.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. ~Socrates
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