Sorry for breaking the string of baseball posts, but if you haven’t seen the new video from that lake just south of Inverness, it’s (maybe) worth a look. (?)
K’s quote: “yeah, that looks like a whale.”
Actually, it looks like a dark blur, like a log or a big eel. too bad the video has nothing to help judge scale. It looks like it’s moving, but maybe that’s just water surface motion? Oh well.
With Bobby Cox about to pass John McGraw for the dubious record of most times getting tossed, it’s worth taking advantage of the opportunity to praise the guy. (Cox, not McGraw, who was a real jerk.)
“If somebody is going to break that record, I’m glad it’s him,” ex-umpire Richie Garcia said. “If it’s possible to do it with dignity and class, he has.”
“The umpires have the utmost respect for Bobby Cox,” said Garcia, a longtime arbiter who now works as a major league supervisor. “The reason for that is he doesn’t carry things over. What happens one night isn’t carried over to the next.”
That’s because Cox considers the men in blue “a part of us,” not some mortal enemy.
“If I have an argument with an umpire today, tomorrow it’s forgotten,” said Cox, the only manager — or player, for that matter — to get tossed from two World Series games. “Hopefully, it’s both ways.”
Since moving into a supervisory role in 2002, Garcia has often chatted amiably with Cox before games.
“He’ll have nothing but good things to say about the umpires,” Garcia said with a chuckle. “Then, two innings later, he’s getting ejected. It’s just his passion for the game and his players. He really loves his players.”
