Ozzie is losing it

[oldstyle81]

DETROIT (AP) -- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was ejected after arguing from the dugout in the second inning of Tuesday night's game against the Detroit Tigers.

 

With Detroit ahead 2-0, Guillen shouted at plate umpire Dan Iassogna when he called a second strike against Juan Uribe with two outs.

 

Iassogna signaled that Guillen was ejected, and the manager came out of the dugout to have a face-to-face argument that was so intense that the veins on the umpire's neck were bulging and the manager's head was bobbing. Guillen continued his rant with first base umpire Lance Barksdale after Iassogna walked away.

 

Guillen then started to walk toward the dugout before deciding he had more to say to Iassogna. He was restrained by third base coach Joey Cora, leading to both men pointing at each other as they shouted.

 

It was Guillen's fifth ejection of the season, the ninth of his career. Cora took over as acting manager.

[UK1679666180]

Guillen was right, the strike zone was terrible tonight and favored Detroit. Of course, it looked like Guillen was protecting Cooper and got tossed to also maybe light a fire under the Sox. Difficult to do with how well Rogers how mixed his pitches and location.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Oh man, I just realized when the Sox get tired of Ozzie and fire him they'll promote Cora and it'll be like Lord of the Flies.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Ozzie never had it.

[otis89]

Ozzie never had it.

 

Exactly. You have to have it before you can lose it.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Aww..come on guys! This is just Ozzie being Ozzie.

[SouthSideRyan]

Yelling at an umpire from the dugout means something different in Venezuela.

[Roast]

Aww..come on guys! This is just Ozzie being Ozzie.

 

Its a breath of freash air in baseball, dont you know!

 

ESPN SAYS SO!

[jjgman21]

Guillen was right, the strike zone was terrible tonight and favored Detroit. Of course, it looked like Guillen was protecting Cooper and got tossed to also maybe light a fire under the Sox. Difficult to do with how well Rogers how mixed his pitches and location.

 

I just saw the pitch on the highlights. didn't look like that terrible of a call to me. hit the mitt low, but had alot of late downward bite on the pitch, and probably was a strike when it got to the plate. maybe the Tigers got some beneficial calls, but with two similar pitchers going, I think the critique has to be all about consistency of the strikezone. were there pitches Rogers got that whiney didn't?

 

also, your statement seems to sort of contradict itself. you say the Tigers got the calls, but Rogers located his pitches.

[YearofDaCubs]

Ozzie's act is already old.

[C.C.]

He's Mike Dikta all over again...

[UK1679666180]

Guillen was right, the strike zone was terrible tonight and favored Detroit. Of course, it looked like Guillen was protecting Cooper and got tossed to also maybe light a fire under the Sox. Difficult to do with how well Rogers how mixed his pitches and location.

 

I just saw the pitch on the highlights. didn't look like that terrible of a call to me. hit the mitt low, but had alot of late downward bite on the pitch, and probably was a strike when it got to the plate. maybe the Tigers got some beneficial calls, but with two similar pitchers going, I think the critique has to be all about consistency of the strikezone. were there pitches Rogers got that whiney didn't?

 

also, your statement seems to sort of contradict itself. you say the Tigers got the calls, but Rogers located his pitches.

 

There were more pitches early on as well, not just that one pitch as the close calls favored Detroit. Actually, the 1st batter of the game Rogers was looking to see where the call was and the ump just shook his head "no". Overall, I thought the ump did a poor job establishing a consistent strike zone, one that favored Detroit.

 

There's no contradiction there. Pitchers make their living on the corners and just outside the corner, especially veteran crafty LH'ers like Rogers. He spotted his pitches there all night and was extremely effective by keeping them off-balance with change-ups low and away and FBs in on the hands.

 

Command is putting the ball where you want, control is throwing strikes. He had both, his command made his performance great, not the calls of the ump.

[weitliz]

Yelling at an umpire from the dugout means something different in Venezuela.

 

:lol: