Dear Lou Piniella...you are an idiot. You have just gone to the top of my list, way past the players with pathetically huge salaries who play more for money than for the love of the game.
Tonight, Tampa Bay's Ben Grieve struck out looking to end the game, a 4-3 loss to the Yankees. Piniella chews out Grieve in the dugout before they leave the field. Why? Piniella basically says in his postgame conference that Grieve should have argued with the home plate umpire that the pitch was high (it wasn't), and that he should have told the umpire what he thought about the call (it was right). Basically Piniella is saying "if you get rung up, prove to the umpire that he is wrong by arguing with him and yelling at him and making a scene."
Irresponsible, pathetic, classless, and no respect for the game. Nice, Lou, real nice.
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