Showing posts with label Baseball Manager. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baseball Manager. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Coming Soon: Pete Rose Manages For A Day

((HT: Bridgeport Bluefish their own selves))

Pete Rose is returning to managing...

It's not like THAT!!!

The Atlantic League is having him take over for Willie Upshaw for a game June 16th.
He can do that since the Atlantic League isn't affiliated with MLB

Here's the announcement


The HQ doesn't know how to feel about this...

Train wreck...??? Sad...???

Somewhere in between...

Friday, September 6, 2013

ICYMI: Umpire Grabs Manager by the Throat

((ht: gammonsdaily.com))

Well, this certainly elevates the notion of the baseball manager/umpire argument to a new level.

It appears that during a Chinese Professional Baseball League game the other night, an argument between a manager and umpire got a bit--"Out of Hand".

That's because after the manager bumped the ump, the ump responded by trying to choke the manager.

Certainly a unique response we must say.

Read more from the ever interesting (Peter) Gammonsdaily.com website RIGHT HERE

No names are listed in the story and the original video is labeled in Chinese which makes it a bit of a challenge to read.

But we did have a couple of questions: Like how is the American umpire the only apparent non-Chinese person there? And why did he react like he did?

We may never know the answer or even if anyone got suspended, but when you get to the 1:15 or so mark in the video, you'll see why we were fascinated: