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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Torrealba Strikes Umpires

He must have forgotten it’s the Christmas season.

Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 02:42 PM | 21 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 03:34 PM (#4022978)
Can someone edit the title, please? He only hit the HP umpire. My typo makes it sound like he's completely deranged, when he just seemed partially deranged.
   2. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 03:37 PM (#4022979)
The two men jawed face-to-face for a good fifteen seconds before Torrealba struck the umpire in the face mask with the palm of his hand and pushed him away.

I only watched the video once, but it looked like Torrealba was doing all the jawing. The ump just stood there and took it.
   3. spivey Posted: December 24, 2011 at 03:47 PM (#4022984)
I already disliked Torrealba, this just increases that.
   4. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:00 PM (#4022990)
And then the Umpire Strikes Back?
   5. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:08 PM (#4022994)
The guy's making over 3 million this year and he's angry about a bad call in a winter league game?
   6. Leroy Kincaid Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:23 PM (#4023008)
I thought this was about Torrealba leading some kind of labor dispute.
   7. Tom Nawrocki Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:35 PM (#4023020)
Torrealba should not have his children taken away.
   8. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:41 PM (#4023022)
If Joe Torre married Jessica Alba... that would be a hell of a sex video.
   9. puck Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:51 PM (#4023025)
Maybe the Rockies will bring him back. They are convinced their problem is one of clubhouse chemistry--it's not volatile enough. Too many laid back players--that is, too many players who think losing is acceptable.
   10. Tom Nawrocki Posted: December 24, 2011 at 04:53 PM (#4023026)
It's amazing how many stories have come out about what a great clubhouse guy Yorvit was, and how much the team misses him. But if the Rockies were going to try to bring him back, they wouldn't have signed Ramon Hernandez.
   11. puck Posted: December 24, 2011 at 05:06 PM (#4023033)
I know, I was kidding. It's hard for me not to be cynical about the team when it seems like they're major idea is that they need more winners. Torrealba does seem to benefit, as the playoff teams and the last two teams had mostly the same types of players on it, except Torrealba left after 2009. And the guys they've gotten rid of (or are trying to) are even-keeled, non-fiery types (Iannetta, Stewart, Smith). Ubaldo and Street, too, though they've never mentioned the pitchers in this regard.

Maybe they will invite Spilly to spring training, and tell him to put eye black on the ring of Cuddyer's batting helmet. And then they'll have Cuddyer throw a tantrum about being serious.
   12. Javy Joan Baez (chris h.) Posted: December 24, 2011 at 05:37 PM (#4023042)
#8: Yeah, gross and hot at the same time. It's like some weird conflation of...things.

I don't know how to feel about it.
   13. CrosbyBird Posted: December 24, 2011 at 06:27 PM (#4023060)
Wasn't there a situation like this years ago where it seemed like one guy was clearly in the wrong, and it later came out that the calm guy had said something remarkably offensive? (IIRC, it was something about the other guy's dead child.)

Not that I think it is likely to have happened here, mind you.
   14. Swoboda is freedom Posted: December 24, 2011 at 06:33 PM (#4023062)
Torrealba should not have his children taken away.

Bill Conlin is retired now and has plenty of time. He might volunteer to help.
   15. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 07:38 PM (#4023094)
13...Are you mixing up Hirschbeck calling Alomar a mommyeffer and Frank Francisco throwing a chair into the crowd because they taunted Brocail about his stillborn baby?
   16. SoSHially Unacceptable Posted: December 24, 2011 at 07:49 PM (#4023099)
Wasn't there a situation like this years ago where it seemed like one guy was clearly in the wrong, and it later came out that the calm guy had said something remarkably offensive? (IIRC, it was something about the other guy's dead child.)


The Frank Francisco chair-throwing incident in Oakland was possibly provoked by a comment on a stillborn child from a fan. However, the comment was directed at Doug Brocail.

Edit: Coke to Joe.
   17. Good cripple hitter Posted: December 24, 2011 at 08:23 PM (#4023118)
Hirschbeck calling Alomar a mommyeffer


I thought the story was Hirschbeck called Alomar a faggot.
   18. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 08:31 PM (#4023119)
Alomar later said he was prompted to spit on Hirschbeck when the ump began using racial insults, particularly one about his mother.

From here.
   19. Good cripple hitter Posted: December 24, 2011 at 08:41 PM (#4023122)
Alomar later said he was prompted to spit on Hirschbeck when the ump began using racial insults, particularly one about his mother.

From here.


Link's busted, but I'd always heard the gay slur version. There's a bunch of sources that claim that lipreaders/other sources say Hirschbeck used that version of the slur, and Alomar said something else as a cover story.
   20. Captain Joe Bivens, Pointless and Wonderful Posted: December 24, 2011 at 09:02 PM (#4023129)
Better?

Your account makes sense, in that Davey Johnson is quoted here saying "they're both guilty", without saying what he heard.
   21. Walt Davis Posted: December 25, 2011 at 01:33 AM (#4023198)
According to Punch/FX, the punch missed but the ump was able to sell it.

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