Word: alomar
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Where was the commissioner in all of this? "We'll see what happens," Bud Selig, the moonlighting Milwaukee Brewers owner, said last Monday. Selig and Budig did manage to stave off the Tuesday walkout by promising to hear Alomar's appeal on Thursday. To add to the bad taste, 50,000 fans cheered and only a few booed as Alomar took the field at Camden Yards against the Cleveland Indians in Game One of their division series. In New York City for the Yankees-Rangers series later that night, umpire Al Clark watched on television as Alomar...
...Wednesday, Roberto tried to do the right thing in dropping his appeal, which only left Budig's sentence lying there, naked in its leniency. So Phillips again beat the drums for a strike, demanding that Alomar serve his suspension immediately instead of at the start of next season. On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Ludwig in Philadelphia ruled that the Umpires Association would be in violation of its collective-bargaining agreement if it staged a walkout, and so the A.L. umps reluctantly showed up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Arlington, Texas. But we haven't heard the last...
...that one moment of heated confrontation, Alomar struck at the spirit and sportsmanship which define baseball...
Exchanges between umpires and players take place in almost every game, but this one degenerated into something more. It became more than just a dispute over a strike; it was classless, tasteless, and the spit will stick on Alomar for the rest of his career...
...American League, he must have thought he'd be spending most of his time happily watching baseball from the best seats in the park. Recently, though, he's been occupied mainly by telephone conversations handling disputes with the Baltimore Orioles. After his sloppy handling of the Roberto Alomar spitting incident, he needed to quickly and decisively rule on the latest controversy, a Baltimore protest of a catch by a 12-year old fan that turned a probable out into a game-tying eighth-inning home run in a game the Yankees later won. Budig and baseball's executive council overruled...