RLYW’s Annual Projections Blowout

@ Aisle424:

Fuck you very much for reminding my that guy is still being paid to pitch for this team. (dying laughing)

Just for the record, I could really give two shits about athletes smoking weed, so long as they do so responsibly and in a way that doesn’t endanger others.

@ Suburban kid:
The Cubs run the bases like your avatars fuck.

@ ACT:
I say 10-15.

Phil Cuzzi is a shitbox. I agree that particular graph doesn’t tell the story, but I was watching that game. Ozzie was literally goaded out of the dugout by Cuzzi. He’d been yapping from the dugout about some bad calls, Cuzzi called him out, Ozzie came out. They argued. Ozzie turned to leave, Cuzzi followed him to the dugout, and then ejected him. Whereupon Ozzie went ballistic. It’s not the first time he’s done that, either:

June 25, 2010: Phil rings up James Loney of the Dodgers, ending the game, the culmination of a long night of questionable strike calls. As Loney walks back to the dugout, Cuzzi walks with him, and when the exchange gets heated, Cuzzi throws out Loney. That’s right, he threw a guy out when the game was ALREADY OVER. Not to mention he did the worst thing an umpire can do, which is engage a player or coach in argument, baiting them into getting thrown out.

August 8, 2007: Cuzzi once again showed his tendency to engage managers, when he jawed with Ozzie Guillen till Guillen came out of the dugout and was thrown out. Guillen was quoted as saying: “From 1985 to now, I don’t see any umpire disrespect players and managers the way that guy does”. [This is the incident I mention above]

Game 4, 2005 NLCS: Jim Edmonds was up in the 8th inning with the tying run on base. With the count 3-1, Edmonds took a pitch and started toward first, only for Cuzzi to call it a strike. When Edmonds turned around to ask where the pitch was, Cuzzi tossed him. The Cardinals would lose the game and the series.

2003: In his 2nd to last game of the season, Roy Halladay was pitching for a Cy Young and a team record 22nd win. When Halladay threw a pitch inside to Rocco Baldelli, Phil decided it was intentional, and threw Halladay out of the game, a shocking move based on the circumstances. No one, including Baldelli, thought Halladay was trying to hit him.

Game 2, 2009 ALDS: Ah, Phil’s masterpiece, his 9th symphony, his Hamlet. In a tied game in the 9th inning, Joe Mauer hit a ball down the left field line, which hit off Melky Cabrera’s glove in fair territory and went into the stands. Phil was the left field umpire, and despite being no more than 20 ft. away, looking right at the play, he called the ball foul. The call was so easy, it has been cited since as a great example of the need for instant replay in baseball. Perhaps baseball should just fire Phil Cuzzi.

http://8thinningweirdness.blogspot.com/2010/07/phil-cuzzi-douchebag-extraordinaire.html