Ozzie Being Ozzie
About time someone charged the mound. This is July and baseball players need to start acting like they want to start some stuff if they want to get people interested in September baseball. Of course Ozzie’s team was involved in the fracas, even though, in all honesty, this whole thing was started by a Kansas City Royals player who actually thinks that people care enough about him to try to hit him. Ozzie got kicked out of the game after going nuts when his pitcher was kicked out of the game. From the Chicago Tribune:
“Olivo overreacted to the situation,” Guillen said. “I wonder why a guy (plate umpire Tim Timmons) thought we were going to hit the guy with the bases loaded with a pitch in on the hands. This is my 20-something year in the big leagues and I still don’t understand what commonsense they have when they make those decisions.
“I’m not going to bring a guy in that throws 85 miles an hour to hit somebody. I guarantee it. I’ll bring (Octavio) Dotel, I’ll bring (Matt) Thornton. Then I will tell them to throw at them. That’s the way I do business.”
I hope that the full video pops out because A.J. Pierzynski took a wicked cheap shot that I don’t think is on the ESPN video. Hell, as hated as A.J. is, I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing was an elaborate plot to get a shot in at him.