No respect for umpires

[LIIRISHMAN]

http://sports.aol.com/mlb/story/_a/b...717x1200338224
This was a brawl in single A ball. A wild melee with both teams calling for 17 ejections. Both teams protested by phone to the league president and he rescinds the ejections! So you put angry ball players back in a game that resulted in an injury to a fan and how does this make sense?How do these umpires have any credibility when the president of the league won't back them? Comments anyone?

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by LIIRISHMAN

http://sports.aol.com/mlb/story/_a/b...717x1200338224
This was a brawl in single A ball. A wild melee with both teams calling for 17 ejections. Both teams protested by phone to the league president and he rescinds the ejections! So you put angry ball players back in a game that resulted in an injury to a fan and how does this make sense?How do these umpires have any credibility when the president of the league won't back them? Comments anyone?

Yeah, how do they finish the games if the umpires are in their hotel? That's where I would have been.

I've said this before, this is part of the problem with professional sports. The leagues do not have the courage to take the appropriate action against teams and players.

I hope the fan sues the piss out of the player, both teams and the league. There is absolutely NO excuse for adults to act in this manner. And we call SP players alleged adults!

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by LIIRISHMAN

http://sports.aol.com/mlb/story/_a/b...717x1200338224
This was a brawl in single A ball. A wild melee with both teams calling for 17 ejections.

What provoked the melee?

[SRW]

Another example of a league official "overruling the umpires"

The Pine-Tar Game

Royals manager Dick Howser protested the game and, four days later, American League president Lee MacPhail — who had served as the Yankees’ general manager from 1967-74 — overruled the umpires’ decision. Brett’s home run stood, and the game was to be resumed.

Five years ago, MacPhail told reporters that he believed the pine tar rule was created only because too many baseballs were being ruined after being struck by tar on a bat.

“The pine tar in Brett’s case had no affect on the distance that the ball could travel,’’ he said. “The pine tar had nothing to do with the ball going out of the ballpark. I don’t even think that the ball touched the pine tar part. I hated to overrule the umpires.’’

[LIIRISHMAN]

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

What provoked the melee?

As I remember in the previous inning there was a hard slide by a player at
2nd base. The opposing pitcher then threw at that player next inning. No brawl yet manager came out to talk to umpires when all hell broke loose.

[snorman75]

Sportscenter said the player who hit the fan was arrested after the game. I could swear they also said umps reinstated some of the ejected players so they could finish the game. I guess they got that part wrong.

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by snorman75

Sportscenter ... got that part wrong.

re: ESPN baseball coverage; if it does not involve New York or Boston teams (and sometimes LA teams), ESPN can't be bothered with getting the story correct.

ESPN = "Eastern Sports Preferred Network"

[whiskers_ump]

Originally Posted by Dakota

re: ESPN baseball coverage; if it does not involve New York or Boston teams (and sometimes LA teams), ESPN can't be bothered with getting the story correct.

ESPN = "Eastern Sports Preferred Network"