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HOOT · 05-30-2007, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

INTERFERENCE
(a) Offensive interference is an act by the team at bat which interferes with, obstructs, impedes, hinders or confuses any fielder attempting to make a play. If the umpire declares the batter, batter- runner, or a runner out for interference, all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference, unless otherwise provided by these rules.

So, not only was it cheap, it was illegal as well.

Good work, A-Rod.

Cheap, Illegal and a missed call from all the umps.

Anyone happen to hear what he said? They were saying something about interviewing the thirdbaseman and the coach to see what he said to confuse him.

Just garbage...I almost jumped through the TV and I'm not even a huge Jays fan let alone a baseball fan anymore.

JiriHrdina · 05-30-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

INTERFERENCE
(a) Offensive interference is an act by the team at bat which interferes with, obstructs, impedes, hinders or confuses any fielder attempting to make a play. If the umpire declares the batter, batter- runner, or a runner out for interference, all other runners shall return to the last base that was in the judgment of the umpire, legally touched at the time of the interference, unless otherwise provided by these rules.

So, not only was it cheap, it was illegal as well.

Good work, A-Rod.

Absolutely - those popups w/ multiple players scrambling are dangerous. Imaginge the carnage if players didn't trust that the guy calling "mine" was their team-mate?

Not only a bush league play by A-rod, also a dangerous one.

KootenayFlamesFan · 05-30-2007, 10:00 PM

''Maybe I'm naive but I thought it was a bush-league play,'' said Gibbons. ''One thing you know about the Yankees, one of the reasons they're so respected, they do things right. They always have.

''They got a lot of pride and a lot of class, they play the game hard and that's not Yankee pride right there. That's not the way they play.''

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/news_story/?ID=209405&hubname=

Rey Comeau · 05-30-2007, 10:04 PM

The worst part about it? After the bush-league play, Rodriguez is smirking while on the base and you could lip-read him saying " 'fudge' them". He also clapped enthusiastically and got into it with fans after coming around to score. The dope was actually proud of himself.

KootenayFlamesFan · 05-30-2007, 10:04 PM

Replays showed Rodriguez shouting something, and Clark backed off at the last second. McDonald was only a few steps behind Clark, but couldn't make the catch and ball dropped for an RBI single.

"I just said, 'Hah!' That's it," Rodriguez said. "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't."

Giambi followed with a two-run single. When the game ended, many of the Blue Jays stayed on the bench, staring at Rodriguez and the Yankees.

"They have their opinions," he said, adding he pulled the trick to help the Yankees "win a game. We're desperate."

Rodriguez said three or four times each week, opponents shout at him while he pursues foul pops near their dugout.

"It's not like he said, 'I got it,'" Yankees manager Joe Torre said.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=270530114

KootenayFlamesFan · 05-30-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Rodriguez said three or four times each week, opponents shout at him while he pursues foul pops near their dugout.

Can he not actually tell the difference between players saying something from the bench and yelling something two feet behind the guy in the field?

rockstar · 05-30-2007, 10:11 PM

A-hole.

Machiavelli · 05-30-2007, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by rockstar

A-hole.

Perfect. I was "meh" towards him before and I'm "ugh" now. What a loser.

kipperfan · 05-30-2007, 10:52 PM

Hell.....I never thought I would say it but now I can stomach Bonds more then I can this little ##### head A-Rod.

JayP · 05-30-2007, 11:43 PM

It's pretty clear from the replays on Sportsnet that he said "mine" and not "hah". You don't need to be a lip-reader to see that.

Pretty sad that the 3rd base ump didn't make the call either. I didn't know it was officially illegal to pull bush league stunts like that (but only an unwritten rule), but clearly it was and it essentially killed any comeback attempt.

RedHot25 · 05-31-2007, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JayP

It's pretty clear from the replays on Sportsnet that he said "mine" and not "hah". You don't need to be a lip-reader to see that.

Yup jays saying the same: from kootenay's tsn article....

Clark, who arrived from the minors earlier in the day, said it was the first time it's happened to him in 16 years of baseball.
''I heard a `Mine' call and so I let it go,'' he said. Once it fell he saw, ''that it wasn't Johnny Mac and then I realized what had happened.
''It makes you mad.''

CrusaderPi · 05-31-2007, 08:02 AM

A proper pitcher would have put a dent into whoever came up next.

Saint Troy · 05-31-2007, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

A proper pitcher would have put a dent into whoever came up next.

Yep, absolutely the baseball "code" there, Giambi should have been wearing one between the numbers. I'm sure Jason would have been thrilled with Arod taking a 95mph heater in the back, all for a bush league play. Oh well, looking forward to Arod's next at bat vs. the Jays, hope Burnett is on the mound.

HOOT · 05-31-2007, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

A proper pitcher would have put a dent into whoever came up next.

By then the game was lost....I think they will wait for A-Rod's next bat or wait for when it could really hurt the Yankees to lose.

JayP · 05-31-2007, 01:51 PM

You also have to consider that Wolfe was pitching as well. This was the guy's first ever major league appearance at 26 years old. To ask the guy to bean Giambi and probably get suspended is a lot to ask from a guy in that situation.

Also, to put A-Rod's bush league antics to rest: if anyone listened to The Jim Rome Show today, he had Luis Gonzalez of the Dodgers on and he asked him about the A-Rod situation. Basically he said that there's an unwritten rule that you don't do that under any circumstances, it doesn't happen with any regularily, and that it's basically the equivilant of yelling "swing batter batter" and other little league moves.

If a major leaguer says it's garbage and his own teammates won't even defend him it's pretty obvious it's a garbage move and there's no defense for it.

JayP · 05-31-2007, 05:30 PM

He said "mine".

Sportsnet just showed a replay of the play with the volume cranked up and he very clearly says "mine" and not "hah" like he claims.

moon · 05-31-2007, 05:49 PM

I thought it was pretty funny actually. I am not a Jays fans so it probably makes it much easier for me to laugh at and not get pissed about.

Of course it broke all the "unwritten rules" of baseball, but it was funny. I just don't understand why A-Rod wouldn't have saved it for a time that mattered more. It didn't affect the outcome of the game and he had to know the flack he was going to take for it. You would think he would have saved it for a more important opportunity, which makes me think it was more of a spur of the moment/reactionary thing than a pre-planned cheap shot.

bluejays · 05-31-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by moon

I thought it was pretty funny actually. I am not a Jays fans so it probably makes it much easier for me to laugh at and not get pissed about.

Of course it broke all the "unwritten rules" of baseball, but it was funny. I just don't understand why A-Rod wouldn't have saved it for a time that mattered more. It didn't affect the outcome of the game and he had to know the flack he was going to take for it. You would think he would have saved it for a more important opportunity, which makes me think it was more of a spur of the moment/reactionary thing than a pre-planned cheap shot.

I actually found it really funny to be honest. I think I was put off mostly by his smugness afterwards when he was all smily and then lying about it afterwards. If he just played it off like, "yeah I did, so what...", it would have been really funny. On a side note, do managers have to wear on the team uniform to games or can they wear on a suit? I don't think one manager has a figure to support looking respectible in a team uniform.

habernac · 05-31-2007, 07:54 PM

Roy Halliday rules. That is all.

KootenayFlamesFan · 05-31-2007, 09:40 PM

One of the guys on The Score quietly mentioned that Buehrle's name was involved in some trade rumours.

If true I hope Riccardi is inquiring. He looked very good tonight.