Posted by
Brooks on Oct. 11, 2009, 4:40am
Ed Price at AOL Fanhouse reports this weekend that Phil Cuzzi, the umpire who botched the Joe Mauer fly ball call that may have cost the Twins a win in Game 2 of the ALDS, was previously fired from professional umpiring after he failed to impress supervisors during call-ups from the minor leagues.
(And you thought you had a good union!)
Cuzzi was “released” from his umpiring duties as a AAA umpire in ‘93, but while working as a bartender in a hotel in ‘96, he prevailed up former National League President Len Coleman to give him another chance at the job.
(If only he’d botched fateful martini at the Hackensack Hilton that badly)
Cuzzi was then assigned to the low minors that year, eventually working his way back to a permanent major league job in ‘99. Read more…
Posted by
Brooks on Oct. 10, 2009, 2:28am
Here’s the posted video of umpire Phil Cuzzi inexplicably ruling Joe Mauer’s fly ball foul last night in the 11th inning of the 4-3 Yankees win in Game 2 of the ALDS series.
(No instant replay has fans, Maurer feelin’ Minnesota)
Replays show the ball clearly landed in fair territory, bouncing into the stands for what should’ve been a ground-rule double. Instead, Mauer later singled, and the Twins eventually failed to score despite two subsequent hits that would’ve otherwise plated Mauer.
Video and more background on the errant ump after the jump. Read more…
Posted by
Adam J on Jun. 05, 2009, 3:15pm
If we told you Sir Elton John was a baseball fan, how would you respond? Is it really that surprising? After all, there’s nothing in The Gay Manifesto: How All Gay People Act All The Time (this book, by the way, doesn’t exist - for many, many reasons) that says gay people can’t like sports or anything. Still, that’s the sort of thing to which about all you can say is, “Well… I guess I never knew that.”
(Evidently, when it comes to hockey, he’s a big Anaheim fan.)
Sure enough, Elton’s a fan of the game, to the point where according to the ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, he recently got a hold of the Twins’ Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau to exchange autographed pictures with the pair. Why Morneau, it wasn’t exactly clear, but John had some high words of praise for Mauer (H/T: MOUTHPIECE SPORTS): Read more…
Posted by
jason on Mar. 06, 2008, 6:00pm
• BUSTED COVERAGE reports a Police woman getting in trouble for flashing her highbeams at a Spring Break crowd.
That would be Walsh University volleyball player Amy Police.
• A blogger for LAKELAND FLYING TIGERS BLOG takes part in Detroit’s open baseball tryouts, and lives to write about it.
• Speaking of life-changing experiences, ESPN’s Pat Forde pens about his portrayal as the Stanford Tree.
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