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Originally Posted by RedHot25
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/M.../14274176.html
Mike Wilner, who is part of The Fan 590 broadcasting crew, has been assigned to house arrest by his radio station over a series of disagreements and criticism of Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston.
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In his most recent meeting with Gaston before the Tampa game during the pre-game scrum, Wilner was asking the manager pointed questions regarding his use of the bullpen in Tuesday’s ugly loss.
Wilner clearly was getting under Gaston’s skin and the manager did a slow burn while giving short curt answers to his questions.
In his blog, Wilner wrote that Gaston had “belittled” him in front of other reporters.
http://www.nationalpost.com/Journali...437/story.html
In his blog entry posted after Wednesday night's game, Wilner addressed his confrontation with Gaston: "It's unfortunate that I can't have a legitimate discussion about strategy with the manager without him feeling as though he's being attacked (or at least reacting as though he's being attacked -- I don't know what he was feeling), but such is life.
"I don't need to be belittled by the skipper in front of the entire [media] assemblage when I'm asking legitimate, rational questions about a situation that he brought up earlier in a conversation."
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Weird story, but it's hard to argue against Wilner. Cito's bullpen use has been very suspect this season (especially so in the game in question).