Arrgh! The first thing he did was throw his hat, which led to his immediate ejection.

Maybe you didn't see the ejection, or understand what Rich is telling you. Sweet Lou threw his hat and was immediately ejected.

THROWN HAT = EJECTION. Okay?

He was not tossed for arguing or kicking dirt. All that occurred AFTER he threw his hat and was ejected.

I KNOW THAT.

IF you read my post, it was a response to mbyron, who thought I had confused Piniella's nickname. I said that I didn't. I don't know how you are all reading a response to poster A (byron) as a response to poster B (Rich).

Can we just stop attacking me and get back to ridiculing ESPN for employing that fat slob Kruk and their merry band of idiots who are running their mouths?

I like Kruk. And what's his being fat have to do with anything? I mean, he once told a lady that he wasn't an athlete, merely a baseball player. Of course, he was one of my favorite players when he was with the Phillies.

Kruk plays a role, just like the umpires.

I'm responding to this statement you made: "Some not so nice words were exchanged, leading to his running himself."

Since that wasn't the case, it seemed pretty clear you misunderstood the ejection.

Yep. And apparently the pay for fat buffon is pretty good these days.

OK, his being fat has nothing to do with it. But he's fairly incompetent when it comes to analyzing baseball. Some of the things he says make absolutely no sense, like when he said a 40-year old Randy Johnson would win 30 games with the Yankees in 2005.

It's a shame that ESPN, the "Worldwide Leader in Sports", offers such awful coverage of baseball. It leads to a lot of the problems we see with coaches & players' behavior, not understanding the basics of the game, and such a stubborn refusal to look at anything other than 'intangibles'.

The thing is, I think it's unrealistic for a 20-year player to all of a sudden not be a rat.

Ooh, Phillies start in 10 minutes. Chalk up another advantage to working from home.

The replays they showed on ESPN never actually showed Lou getting dumped...so my thinking (and I think you can understand it, even if it's wrong) was that Lou came out, threw a "You f!*%ing suck!" at Mark, got tossed, and had his reason to go crazy. If we threw it as soon as he got out there, he definitely had to go.

You mean they didn't give him "his" warning first? :) Extreme sarc

ex-rat tub of goop.

Isn't that bigotry against overweight people? Plus, he did lose weight the Nutri-System way.

www.nutrisystem.com

I absolutely hate that guy. Sick as it is, I'm hoping they trip too. I don't think we need cameras everywhere....let's let the guys play balls and keep the cameras to a minimum.

Espn has some excellent baseball guys in the studio IMO. Soup, Gammons, and Tim kurljian are all good at analyzing games. They also had a former player who did an outstanding job of color commentary, play by play and in studio work in Herald Reynolds but he messed that up himself. I also think that Joe Morgan does a nice job. I hate the fox crew! I despise Tim McCarver and I could live without Buck also (though he's better the McCarver) The best thing McCarver ever did was get soaked 3 times from Dion Sanders in their locker room.

First things First

ESPN like other broadcast companies are "in it" for the ratings ONLY. Generally speaking Baseball does not have good TV ratings. Baseball is a Regional sport meaning the Yanks / BOSOX series will have excellent ratings here in the East but what about the rest of the country whereas a football game between the Colts vs. the New England Patriots will have a national Audience.

Therefore, ESPN will print any headline that can "tweak"the fans to get some ratings.

Also, there are no former umpires in the ESPN booth so one will get the kinds of remarks that you see/hear. Let's say you did have former major league baseball umpires present and asked them how did they feel when a manager kicked dirt at them etc.

In a nutshell in major league baseball it's all "part of the Show"

The problem is for us amateurs when managers think they can act like they see on TV.

Pete Booth

I am overweight. Kruk is an ex-rat tub of goop. What did he do, eat triple portions?