Random Thoughts: MLB Should Listen To, Not Fine Ozzie
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Mike Proly:
Ozzie Guillen gets tagged by MLB for his comments regarding alleged umpire Phil Cuzzi. You knew that was going to happen. But you would think that the boys in New York would at least look into what Ozzie has to say instead of dismissing him as a loon. BTW, last night, Ed Montague's crew (Cuzzi's crew) was umpiring the Brewers-Mets
series and in the second inning, Jerry Lane called Ryan Braun out on a strike that was
nowhere near the outside black of the plate. Brewers manager Ned Yost held his tongue because he's had several past run ins with Layne. There is little doubt that Montague's crew is the most
confrontational and awful crew in baseball. Yet baseball fiddles on.- If Jim Thome gets booted out of a game, you know the umpiring is bad. Thome has one of the most dicilined batting eyes in the game.
- The Sox are proving once again that if they lose one key player from their lineup, they lose. At least, Brian Anderson got a chance and responded.
- Not only is Blago a Cub fan, he's a lousy governor. He deserved what he got.
- I don't know if they will get today's gamein, but if they do, I doubt Justin Verlander will be so easy to hit today.
- Can't Stop the Bleeding relays a tale from ESPN that Mike Gundy's award winning rant last year might have been staged. How sad.
- Rumors are now swirling that a construction worked buried a Red Sox t-shirt somewhere in new Yankee Stadium. It makes me wonder what Roger Bossard may have buried under Wrigley Field.
- Here's the definition of a loser. Before there was Darryl Strawberry. Before there was Dwight Gooden. Before there was the late Steve Howe. Before there were any of the modern self-destructive players, there was Denny McClain.
- The Wild evens their series with the Avsat one game a piece. I watched the first period last night and it was fast break hockey for both sides, back and forth and some great goal tending and great hitting. There is nothing more exciting than the Stanley Cup playoffs.
- The changing of the guard in Milwaukee is about complete.
- Either the Providence job has little potential or it is just a bad gig. Usually coaches want jobs very badly, but here, no one seems to want it. I wonder if it would be worth a call to Kelvin Sampson?
- Bryant Gumble has finally realized what America knows...he's the worst network play by play guy in history. So, he's packing up his microphone and moving on. BTW, speaking of God awful announcing, for some reason, Ed Farmer wasn't in the Sox booth last night and normal studio host Chris Rongey did the play by play. Saying it was "brutal" would be kind. He had as much business doing play by play as Stevie Wonder does flying a plane. This is the dirty little secret in radio: Nobody gives a damn how it sounds as long as the spots get run. Listeners have become totally irrelevant. And if you care how it sounds you don't keep your job for too long.
- Recently, the Canadian government bestowed the "Order of Canada" which is similar to our "Medal of Freedom". Among those honored was Derek Oland of Saint John, N.B., chair of Moosehead Brewery. He was our hero long before he got the award. Awesome stuff that Moosehead. Aye!
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