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June 27, 2012
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
The President congratulated the Miami Heats (sic).
posted by Bonkers at 09:04 AM on June 27, 2012
"The ump is saying out, and Dewayne Wise doesn't have the ball!"
posted by phaedon at 09:15 AM on June 27, 2012
The President congratulated the Miami Heats (sic).
He did? Doesn't sound like it to me.
posted by NoMich at 09:16 AM on June 27, 2012
Lukas Podolski is excited about making the semi-finals. In other news, I now wish Germany lost.
posted by yerfatma at 10:29 AM on June 27, 2012
posted by rcade at 12:30 PM on June 27, 2012
The ump is saying out, and Dewayne Wise doesn't have the ball!"
And Hannahan got thrown out of the game for...
It was too late, of course, to help the Indians or Hannahan, who argued the call after seeing a replay in the clubhouse and got ejected. "I can live with the fact that he didn't see him drop the ball or live with the fact that he didn't see the fan jumping up and down two feet away, excited he got a foul ball,'' Hannahan said. "But to not ask him to see the ball is absolutely inexcusable. And it's frustrating.''
Hannahan said the expressing of that opinion, without swearing, was what got him tossed, an account DiMuro pretty much confirmed. "He and I got into a discussion about the play,'' DiMuro said. "He told me to reference the tape replay, and that is why I ejected him.''
posted by justgary at 01:01 PM on June 27, 2012
Reds closer Aroldis Chapman ruffles feathers with double somersault.
posted by justgary at 01:01 PM on June 27, 2012
Here's the video that justgary is referring to.
posted by NoMich at 01:17 PM on June 27, 2012
Hannahan said the expressing of that opinion, without swearing, was what got him tossed, an account DiMuro pretty much confirmed. "He and I got into a discussion about the play,'' DiMuro said. "He told me to reference the tape replay, and that is why I ejected him.''
That is nutty. Getting thrown out for pointing out how incompetent the ump was during that play.
It didn't even look like Wise was play-acting very much to me.
posted by bperk at 01:39 PM on June 27, 2012
I'm trying to think of an appropriate "so that's where he hides his Vaseline for his spit balls" joke vis a vis the Spiderman gif, but I got nothing.
posted by Joey Michaels at 04:20 PM on June 27, 2012
Maybe that's why C.C. Is going on the DL.
posted by dyams at 05:30 PM on June 27, 2012
Fair enough, but now I'd like to see the Batcave, if you don't mind.
posted by beaverboard at 09:18 PM on June 27, 2012
Guess there's no point calling for a hand check.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:14 AM on June 28, 2012
We can assume Joe Maddon will want the ump to visit the mound next time Tampa is in town. Is this why CC is on the disabled list?
posted by yerfatma at 10:36 AM on June 28, 2012
No, Joe Maddon thinks it's bush league. It's Davey Johnson you have to watch out for, but luckily for CC, the Yankees have already been to Washington this season.
posted by bender at 11:44 AM on June 28, 2012
Nah, Maddon thinks it's bush league to catch his guy doing it. He's made the ump come out to check a Red Sox pitcher more than once.
posted by yerfatma at 11:57 AM on June 28, 2012
Maddon thought it was bush league b/c the player was a former Nat under Davey Johnson not that generally checking a pitcher was the problem.
posted by bperk at 12:58 PM on June 28, 2012
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