Speaking Truth
to Power
I want to say
that there have been ballgames where I’ve seen evidence of milk and cookies on
Ben Zobrist’s beard, but that would be a lie; Zobrist would never do anything
like that to dishonor the game. There’s
squeaky clean, and there’s Ben Zobrist.
So, when the
thirteen-year veteran earned his first-ever ejection in Tuesday’s Brewers-Cubs
game, that was news. What did the Cubs’
second baseman say, exactly? Did any of
the words begin with the letter F? No,
they did not. More like the letter E.
After the game, Zobrist told the Tribune “I
just basically said, ‘That’s why we want an electronic strike zone.” Give home-plate umpire Phil Cuzzi credit,
though. He made a bad call ringing up
Zobrist to end the sixth, but he waited two whole innings before giving him the
heave-ho. Joe West would’ve sent Zobrist
to the showers in a heartbeat.
I can’t wait for the
day when Cuzzi and West get together to reminisce about the good old days
when guys liked them dressed in blue used to stand behind the catcher and
pretend to know what they were doing.
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