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Oh yeah, I had forgotten to mention the all-time saves leader, who has 42 this season and over 500 for his career who plays on this lousy team.
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Meacham accused Winters of a "racial comment" in his first comments to the media. He later changed that to a comment that "could be taken" as a racial comment. He later dropped the allegation all together when the F3 was called to testify.
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The PU rings up Bradley, who throws has bat. The PU doesn't take much notice of the thrown bat. Winters informs the PU that Bradley threw his bat at him. When Bradley comes up again, the PU mentions the incident to Bradley and, apparently, adds that the 1st base umpire had told him about it. Bradley gets a hit and reaches first. When Bradley arrives at 1st, words are exchanged between Bradley and Winters. It is unclear who started it, but I suspect it probably started with Bradley saying something to Winters. Even if Bradley "started it", Winters should not say anything that would put fuel on the fire ... which apparently he DID. There is plenty of blame to go around - of that I'll agree. David Emerling Memphis, TN |
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Omar Vizquel won nine Gold Gloves in a row in the American League before the unbalanced schedule went into effect. He has won the last two in National League at the age of 38 and 39. Vizquel also has the Major League record for career double plays by a shortstop. Also, he has the lifetime career fielding percentage (.985) for a shortstop in major league history. I believe Major League Baseball bases such things on a thousand games. Now your boy Greene, has a lifetime fielding percentage of .975, to go along with career batting averag of .254. This compares with Omar's career average of .275. You just never saw Omar play enough to appreciate what a master he was, and still is, in the field.
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Second, how do you know how much of Omar I've seen? I've seen plenty. I watched all the games back in the day when he was with Cleveland. I know what a great shortstop he is. I will still put up Greene's highlight reel up against Vizquel's head-to-head. I've been around this game just as long as you have, so don't think you know any more about baseball than I do because that's just not the case. I never tried to compare statistics, I just said that for my money, Greene is more exciting to watch. For me. How do think you can compare Vizquel to Greene. Greene is just at the start of his career. He is still on the upswing. Vizquel, whether you admit it or not, is in his twilight years. Greene not only makes the spectacular plays, but he is a fine everyday shortstop who makes very few errors and has a cannon arm.
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Now I will compare 2007 (the only relevant season) statistics:
Greene: AVE - .254, OBP - .293, Slugging pct. - .470, OPS - .763 Doubles - 44, HR - 26, RBI - 96. Vizquel: AVE - .245, OBP - .304, Slugging pct. - .309, OPS - .613 Doubles - 18, HR - 3, RBI - 49. So, for this season at least, I think I'll take Khalil Greene. Oh, Khalil has your boy hangin'.
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During the exchange for the most part all you heard is the word F**k coming from both Earl and Haller. Did Earl go to MLB and accuse Haller of "baiting him" or using profanity - NO. It was the accepted practice back then. We do not know what evidence MLB has and probably will never know. The race card was used and we all know how powerful that is whether right / wrong. Is MLB "sending a message" to the umpires - Probably. Is Winters the "sacrificial lamb" - Do not know. Also, this incident is more prevelant in the Umpires discussion Forums then in the "court of public opinion" Unless an official is suspended for Gambling charges, drug abuse, alcoholism or something along those lines it is not newsworhty. Yes it was on ESPN for maybe a couple of days but it is now dropped. The mistake made by Winters was that he knew well in advance that Bradley is a "time bomb" and anything derragatory said to him would send off armagedon. Also, if there was no racial comments said then IMO the First base coach should be suspended as well. As mentioned we all know the power of accusing someone of racism and intially the 1B coach accused Winters of that. Then he changed his tune, therefore, he should also be suspended. Winters career might well be over. In addition we do not know if MLB wanted to get "get rid of some umpires" and was looking for any valid reason to do so. Pete Booth
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You wrote: "Winters was not accused of racism, he was found guilty of being profane and abusive," to which I correctly replied that he was indeed accused of a making a racial statement, falsely as it turned out. MLB did not make the accusations. MLB adjudged the accusations. Winters was found to not have made a racial comment. He was found guilty of making a "profane" comment to a player, which, up to now, has not been grounds for suspension. So, it appears, as I stated early on, it would seem the rules have changed.
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Included you'll hear Haller tell Weaver: "You're full of sh!t", "Phuck you" and "You ain't no phuckin' good, Earl." Today, Haller would suspended for the rest of the season.
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