This apology thing

If Ozzie get kicked out of a game and sneaks back in wearing a hat, beard and smoking a stogie, then you know he didn't mean it. You know, the apology thing.

It's just that managing the Cuban team doesn't pay that much. So he's here.

So Manny apologized (for well.....being Manny I guess) to the Red Sox

When do the Dodgers get theirs?

2012?

White Sox?

2013?

Where are your manners?

Tom Gage of the Detroit News reports the following:

"In a WFAN-New York interview on Friday before a charity roast for Don Zimmer* in Connecticut, Jim Leyland said he got a call from Umpire Randy Marsh "three weeks into the off season" to apologize for missing the one-out pitch with the bases loaded that hit Brandon Inge in the playoff game against Minnesota."

Had the umpires called it, the Tigers would have taken at least a one-run lead into the bottom of the 12th which is where they lost the game to the dreaded Minnesota Twins.**

Hey Jim! Classy people usually keep those personal apology thingies to themselves.

No offense but don't expect any more apologies from umpires.

Just sayin.

*A charity roast for Don Zimmer could go on all night. Just think of the possibilities.

**People around here every year seem to think that the Minnesota Twins have the team of the century that can't possibly be beat for some reason. I have never quite understood this.