Thanks Brian

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by msavakinas

Beg to differ. He kicked the call. Get off his jock just because you know him. We understand that. I honestly think that Marty Brennaman is right and it's not a coincidence that sh!t happens every time he's behind the dish.

All three of his ejections have been his fault because he screwed up.

I'm not sniffing his jock at all. I know him, but we're not buddies or anything. I call sh!t either as it is or as I see it. From looking at the crappy video on MLB and the crappy still photos I've seen, I can't really tell if the plate is being touched.

And then there is the fact that twice I mentioned that umpires miss calls, which is to say "get over it." So, I twice admitted the possibility of a blown call. But from what I saw, it looked like his leg was in the air. I'm not defending Runge on a personal level, just basing it on what I saw in the crappy video clip.

The ejections were deemed to have been on correct calls by an independant source. I'm not making anything up. Plus, Manuel had no business coming out, and I would have run him much sooner myself, like as soon as he started arguing balls and strikes. Runge takes too much crap, IMO. And he tried to keep motormouth Beltran in the game, but the little pendejo couldn't keep his boca shut. Runge gave him chance after chance to pipe down, and just couldn't do it.

And as far as jock straps go, Brennaman couldn't hold Vin Scully's or Harry Kalas'. Highly overrated. Boy, oh boy!