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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
The Yankees protest of the Marlins 6-5 victory Sunday was denied Tuesday by major league baseball.
President Larry Beinfest informed Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez of the decision just before Gonzalez received a fax from the league office.
Gonzalez was relieved, even though he believed it wasn’t a “protestable type” incident.
“What’s the old (saying), thousand pound gorilla,” Gonzalez said. “I had about two of them.
“It’s embarrassing, big time embarrassing. You got 25 players on the team and six coaches and staff members, 50,000 people in the stands and two million viewers. It’s not easy. It’s embarrassing. And then to get the game protested and you got an off day, it’s a tough couple of days.”
Tripon
Posted: June 23, 2009 at 11:50 PM | 20 comment(s)
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What did they want to have happen? Was the only issue whether or not the strike to Jeter should stand?
I guess that I'm not understanding the Yankees' beef here. The Marlins were "properly punished" by the loss of both players. Does the rule book offer some other form of relief?
if the Yankees won the protest, the game would have been replayed from the point of the error.
I get that. But in order to reach that point, the umpires would have had to make a "reversible error." Was the one strike against Jeter the only thing at issue? In other words, had the umps not counted that one strike, would Giardi not have protested the game?
That's OK, Hughes2.50 told us he would be better than Pedro-in-his-prime. I think reasonable people can agree that he's likely to be somewhere in between.
Ask George Brett.
But at least they're not asking MLB for a decision by forfeit against a team facing a natural disaster.
D'oh. Forgot that one.
it's been close to 50 years, but we had 'em back then...
And yet...
So LL is where Americans keep all the ####### coaches that Canadians would store in Junior Hockey.
Pretty much. Some of these folks get crazy intense and the parents who aren't even coaches are pretty nuts too.
Yeah, that sounds exactly like Junior Hockey.
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