What!!!???

Crew for tonight's Padres/Brewers game:

PU - Brian Runge
1B - John Hirshbeck
2B - Bruce Froemming
3B - Mark Wegner

Like I said, times have changed. If the Haller/Weaver tete a tete happened today, Haller would be suspended for saying "F*ck you, Earl."

Umpires, players and managers all had salty language and no one cried to mommy about it and no one lied about it, playing the race card. The San Diego first base coach set a new low for rats.

No more. MLB wants the umpires to clean up their act. Unfortunately F*cking pieces of sh!t like Bradley don't have to, but that's the game today. The umpires have been put on notice and they will simply have to play the game under the new rules.

Have I used profanity? Sure. I've told whining adult league batters to shut up and get in the f*ckin' box more than once. Suspend me.

Nothing wrong with saying this in a shaving age game (non-HS).

And therein lies my point exactly.

Who hasn't? Not the same as calling someone a dirty, disgusting name.

Sorry, Steve. I don't find, in the context of a heated exchange on the field, POS to be a dirty digusting name.

Umpires, managers and players have referred to one another by that name for years. Usually, however, umpires didn't initiate it, they repeated it in their replies.

I am not blaming Bradley for what Winter's did, but I agee that had Bradley not charged Winters and had the first base coach not lied, this would not have risen to the level it has.

But the fact is, it has risen to higher level and Winters must pay the consequences of his action.

I've thought it many times. I've almost blurted it out a few times too. But I never actually said what was on my mind. I always managed to either bite my tongue or say it in a way that was not offensive personally.

Tough call. One, for 99% of the population is a physical impossibility. The other is a vivid description that applies to certain individuals. How about combining them? "Hey you F***ing piece of sh!t, go F*** yourself."

That works. I think I'll send Bradley a get well card with a special message.

I only once lowered myself to the level of swearing at a player in an "adult" league game. I balked the pitcher, who had a reputation of being a no talent whiner. His first response was to come off the mound and get in my face, telling me "you're a blind MF'er, and that youdon't know WTF your're doing". My response was, " well, you're a gone MF'er, and I"m a much better umpire then you are a pitcher".

I turned and walked away. His team mates escorted him off the field, he got in his car and drove away.

Hey all,

The way I see it, Bradley did something wrong, but not enough for ejection. Later, Bradley initiates a situation, Winters escalated it, Bradley blows up.

Winters deserved a punishment for the escalation, Bradley got what he deserved for blowing up.

Umpires, especially at the MLB level, should not, and apparantly cannot, go onto the field with total immunity from their actions.

Maybe I am alone in this, but I think Meachum should get some sort of punishment for the LYING, not once, but two or three times, about what took place in the process of an investigation, as well.

LomUmp:cool:

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I think you are acting like such a homer you are not even paying attention to what anyone is really saying.
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I think you are acting like such a homer you are not even paying attention to what anyone is really saying.
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
That is just too stupid for words, so I won't waste any.



Why does this remind me of two crippled frogs battling over a dead fly? Why? Why?

I understand he has a grrl and boyfriend.

Just trying to save you postage. :(

Uh, because you're really weird?

Hmmmm....

The worst thing I have ever said to a participant in a game I was working was, "SHUT UP!". (To an assistant assistant coach keeping score who felt compelled to insert himself into a conversation I was having with the head coach.)

I generally try to be more polite than that. But hey, I'm still pretty new at this.

JM

The rules haven't changed if you bring your head instead of your ego to the park. Why for the life of me do senior, experienced umpires - let me amend that, in fairness, I don't know how much ball you have called but you sound so old - who should have their act together get all hung up shouting expletives and acting out just like the whiny players. They have zero authority, you have all the authority. The whole affair is laughable, or ought to be.

To quote you "rats" is the term, yes? So your advice is to scurry right on down into their holes with them? :p

My goodness.

Originally Posted by GarthB
MLB wants the umpires to clean up their act. Unfortunately F*cking pieces of sh!t like Bradley don't have to, but that's the game today. The umpires have been put on notice and they will simply have to play the game under the new rules.

Again, just for Garth.