Devil Rays prospect throws bat at plate umpire

[briancurtin]

nope, but i thought an under had to be set before you put your money down? it was also a bit of a joke since the o/u wouldnt be 0.

[Sal Giaco]

While I don't wish that to happen to any umpire, there is a small part of me that says "you wanted to work AAA baseball, welcome to PRO ball". I'll leave it at that

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Sal Giaco

While I don't wish that to happen to any umpire, there is a small part of me that says "you wanted to work AAA baseball, welcome to PRO ball". I'll leave it at that

Yeah, that's real professional: to throw a bat at another person.

[Sal Giaco]

Getting sprayed with tobacco and mother f..cked during an argument from a manager is not real professional either but it happens on a PRO field. Nobody deserves to get a bat thrown on them or spit at, but guess what, in PRO ball, anything can happen. That's why there are professional umpires out there to handle situations like this. Perhaps the entire incident could have been prevented by a more experienced (professionally trained) umpire????

[wsttxump]

Originally Posted by Sal Giaco

Getting sprayed with tobacco and mother f..cked during an argument from a manager is not real professional either but it happens on a PRO field. Nobody deserves to get a bat thrown on them or spit at, but guess what, in PRO ball, anything can happen. That's why there are professional umpires out there to handle situations like this. Perhaps the entire incident could have been prevented by a more experienced (professionally trained) umpire????

Perhaps the incident would have been prevented and maybe not. Do they teach you how to duck a bat thrown by an idiot in Pro school? Also Sal, I suggest if you are going to run your mouth about what happens on a pro field read the minor league tobacco rule and the fines for it.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Sal Giaco

Getting sprayed with tobacco and mother f..cked during an argument from a manager is not real professional either but it happens on a PRO field. Nobody deserves to get a bat thrown on them or spit at, but guess what, in PRO ball, anything can happen. That's why there are professional umpires out there to handle situations like this. Perhaps the entire incident could have been prevented by a more experienced (professionally trained) umpire????

Guess what Sal? All of that happens in ADULT BASEBALL too. Tobacco sprayed, MFd, bumped, etc. I've experienced it all. I don't think any amount of extra training is going to prepare an umpire to have a bat chucked at them by a punk-*** rat ba$tard ballplayer. I sincerely doubt that this idiot's actions could have been prevented simply by having a pro umpire there.

[Texas Aggie]

Sorry to disagree with you. He threw the bat at a scab who has disrespected our brothers in blue.

This is such BS, its hard to know where to begin. What if we all decided that we didn't like you and felt you disrespected us? I'm not talking about strike issues, it just came to our joint conclusion that you didn't deserve respect so when you got assaulted, we didn't care. Even if our reasons were irrational, tell me exactly how you would feel in that situation.

You pro-union guys need to get it through your thick head that many (if not most) of us don't agree with hard line union tactics. We don't view replacement umpires as crossing a picket line, only doing the job that you decided you won't do. We think the word scab is used by you as a defamatory term. If you feel your reasons are justified, fine. But just because you don't like what someone did doesn't mean what they did was objectively wrong. Here's a clue: some people have differences of opinion and to assert that anyone deserves an assault simply (or one should be ignored) because YOU have a problem with how they got their assignment is reprehensible.

If you truly feel this way, you don't and won't ever have my respect as an official. If you have so much hatred that you can't put a difference of opinion aside for an issue that affects all officials, then I seriously question your ability to be on any field.

[your boss]

Originally Posted by Sal Giaco

While I don't wish that to happen to any umpire, there is a small part of me that says "you wanted to work AAA baseball, welcome to PRO ball". I'll leave it at that

sal -

how much professional baseball did you work?