Seattle Mariners @ Toronto Blue Jays GameThread, Sep 27, 2009 10:07 AM PDT

Seattle Mariners	Toronto Blue Jays
Ichiro Suzuki - RF	Jose Bautista - RF
Franklin Gutierrez - CF	Aaron Hill - 2B
Jose Lopez - 1B	Edwin Encarnacion - 3B
Mike Sweeney - :)	Vernon Wells - CF
Adrian Beltre - 3B	Randy Ruiz - DH
Bill Hall - LF	Rod Barajas - C
Kenji Johjima - C	Kevin Millar - 1B
Matt Tuiasosopo - 2B	Travis Snider - LF
Josh Wilson - SS	John McDonald - SS

Some times it just isn't worth the effort.

by msb on Sep 27, 2009 9:32 AM PDT reply actions

Per Drayer this morning

The Jays clubhouse got the overhead shot of Ichiro drawing the line in the dirt, and the F/X shot of where the pitch crossed the plate, and noted that they were in the same place.

She said the general consensus over there was “is this guy ever wrong?”

by msb on Sep 27, 2009 9:40 AM PDT reply actions

Therefore, my general consensus is that Brian Runge

Can eat a bag of dicks.

"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz

by section331 on Sep 27, 2009 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions

I can see that it was a call that could go either way, and I know you can't show up an ump (especially a tender flower like Runge)

It just reinforces for me that Ichiro is like Edgar.

If I were an umpire and either of them gave me the “it was a ball” look, I’d go back and check the monitor.

by msb on Sep 27, 2009 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions

He is a unique and beautiful snowflake!

"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz

by section331 on Sep 27, 2009 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions

You might not go and check the monitor

Because you’d be drunk on POWER!

"Let this big fucker come in and walk the world here." - Dave Niehaus on JJ Putz

by section331 on Sep 27, 2009 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn't agree so fully if the guy didn't have such a track record for being such a douche nozzle.

Awaiting the day I catch a Russell Branyan foul ball. I will make love to it.
Preserved In All His Greatness - R.I.P. The Reignman 1989 to 1997

by JLProck on Sep 27, 2009 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions

Runge is the 3B umpire today.

Ichiro doesn’t check swing very often, but if I was the catcher I’d be looking over there every time.

by Kermit. on Sep 27, 2009 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions

Just the person to tell me if I'm remembering this correctly

Didn’t Olerud get ejected for giving the umpire a long hard look? He never said much at the plate, but around ‘02 or so I remember him giving the ump a stare, and holding it for a long time. I guess the ump didn’t feel like blinking first so he tossed him. This entire event could be my imagination blowing minor details out of proportion.

by Kermit. on Sep 27, 2009 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions

Still looking, but I haven't found that he ever got ejected ...

I’d forgotten Boone’s first career ejection came in ’03 for “equipment violations” — he threw down his bat and helmet after a strikeout in his first at-bat of the game.

by msb on Sep 27, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions

I did not know that Piniella had Cuban ancestry and spoke Spanish.

Bottom of this article, also had a mildly interesting quote about Ichiro. NYTimes

by Kermit. on Sep 27, 2009 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions

Lou does speak Spanish ... dunno what his accent is like, after hearing him pronounce names like Ibanez through the years. ...

I’d always heard he was of Spanish extraction

“Before playing Major League Baseball and posting 11 winning seasons out of 15 as a manager, Piniella grew up in Florida with the cigar industry. His grandfather, a Spanish immigrant, began working for Cuesta-Rey cigars as a tobacco buyer in the 1920s when the company was owned by E. Regensburg & Sons. Piniella’s father was a well-known cigar distributor in Ybor, Florida and West Tampa throughout 50s and 60s”

by msb on Sep 27, 2009 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions

Heh.

“Piniella’s grandparents emigrated from Spain and Lou spoke only Spanish until he was enrolled in a Catholic school. Schoolmates in his neighborhood were chiefly Spanish or Italian.

In his autobiography, “Sweet Lou,” Piniella recalled that a lot of baseball scouts marked him early as a hot-headed Latino. He came by it naturally. He recalls that his father – an amateur pitcher – one day decked his own catcher on the mound, during a game, in a dispute over pitch selection."

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