I see that Bobby Cox got thrown out of the game last night in the Braves 5-1 loss to the Giants. This gives Bobby who of course is the career leader in ejections, 146 ejections giving him a commanding 15 ejection lead over John McGraw who of course cannot catch him because he is dead.
While I appreciate Bobby's continued feistiness and willingness to extend his lead here, he seems to be in a bit of a slump as this was only his third ejection of the year. This is kind of disappointing. Three?! From Bobby Cox? What's going on here? Is Bobby losing focus or something? It's not like umpiring is getting any better recently. This is truly something of a mystery.
I have said it before but if Major League Baseball would assign Doug Eddings and fellow incompetent Angel Hernandez to ump more Braves games, I bet Bobby would get back in the groove really quick.
Until then, if I was Bobby, I would periodically hurl some abuse on the some of those lesser guys and bide my time until the Eddings and Hernandez games come up when he can really rack up the numbers.
3 comments:
it's tough to argue bad calls when your team is in a slump. When your team is winning, you've got that "it must be wrong, we win all the time" behind you.
As the Braves get better, Bobby will be thrown out more.
I understand but when a team is slumping you also have the "very frustrated and must take this out on somebody" thing going on.
the way the Braves were playing for awhile there..... it was waaaaaaaaaaaay past that.
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