Hey, look! It’s Enrico Pallazzo!

Readymade on June 3, 2007 at 1:01 PM

Awesome.

This is why football has a “delay of game” penalty.

Jim-Rose on June 3, 2007 at 1:03 AM

Baseball IS a delay of game.

Over-rated overpayed baby. Time out in a corner
for a few years please.

Way back in the sixties, my dad had painted on the basement walls scenes of manager/ump discussions. One had the cap tip to head, with chew or something not quite staying in the mouth
One had the kicking dirt on the plate thing going.

These were all classic scenes, played out like a best hits album in one fit.

This is why football has a “delay of game” penalty.
Jim-Rose on June 3, 2007 at 1:03 AM

Uhhh, There’s no clock in baseball, the GREATEST game on Earth, period.

There is no better way to help a team at certain points during the season. Tensions evaporate in the clubhouse after this, teams laugh and enjoy these things, it is a great way to show emotion with out getting too stupid ( i.e. hockey blind sided hits that maim others, football taking out knees or leading with the helmet, basketball…well their almost all preschooler brats anyway, ….).
GREAT CLIP. GREAT GAME.

Good stuff…baseball is boring and he made it interesting.

It’s boring only to those who don’t understand what’s going on. When I was listening to Cubs radio broadcasts in the ’80′s they had a commentator for [the idiot] Harry Caray, whose name was Steve Stone, a former standout pitcher for the NY Mets; he understood the game. Listening to him, I began to appreciate the subtleties of the game. There is a whole chess-game-within-the-game going on, with outfield and infield position adjustments, pitch selection and location, all depending on not just the hitter, but the score, the count, the number of men on base, etc. I also REALLY encourage everyone to read the book Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (Norton, 2003, available cheap in used editions). How advances in statistical techniques used by market traders (sp. fractals) began to be applied to baseball statistics, producing a whole new way of thinking about what makes a quality ball player, enabling the A’s to make and do well in the playoffs for a few years with the lowest payroll in the game (until everyone else caught up with the new thinking). The chapter in which Billy Bean (A’s manager at the time) is horsetrading with two other managers on two different phone lines at the same time is worth the price of the book itself. Saying that baseball is boring is like saying there is no difference between chess and checkers; it reveals one thing, and I don’t have to spell out what that is.

“Keep digging! Make a nice hole you can be buried in!”

The next four pitches would be fastballs thrown at the batter’s ear.

Looks kind of like the Republicans after the November elections.(or the Dems after 2000) take your pick.

There is no comparison between the post-election Republicans in ’06 and the post-election Dems in ’00. The former, for the most part, were gracious and accepting of their defeat. The latter are still in denial, acting like graceless pigs about theirs.

However, that video is damn funny stuff!

Spectacular… that was Earl Weaver on steroids. LMAO!

Terp Mole on June 2, 2007 at 11:16 PM

He started out doing an “Earl Weaver” in the umps face. He then sequed into a “Billy Martin” with the dirt and home plate. Act III with third base was a very nice “Lou Pinella.” He then rounded it out with an original movement and the rosin bag grenade. The coda was another “Lou Pinella” with second base.

A well composed and executed tantrum. I’ll give it an 8.5, mostly for his excellent interpretation of the classics.

Must have his eye on Bobby Cox’s job…

DCJeff on June 2, 2007 at 10:08 PM

If not in the Braves system, perhaps Lou Piniella’s?

Exit question: Why can a manager get away with vandalizing the diamond, but when a paying spectator runs out on the field, the security people run him right down?

I bet he’ll be checked into rehab toot sweet.

I love baseball – have season tickets to the A’s.