Phil Cuzzi is still a douchebag
Phil Cuzzi is at it again. The douchebag umpire, who gets off on calling ball and strikes like Ronnie Milsap after a six-week bender, tossed Ozzie Guillen after blowing a call on a high strike in the third inning of yesterday's game between the White Sox and the Twins.
It was Cuzzi, you may remember, who gave Roy Halladay the heave-ho for hitting Rocco Baldelli with a pitch in his second-to-last start of the season in 2003, at a time when there were significant implications for Doc's Cy Young aspirations and a number of Blue Jays team records on the line.
He also put himself front and center in the 2005 NLCS when he tossed Jim Edmonds for asking where a called strike was.
Cuzzi likes to present himself as a story of faith, family and determination, as evidenced by the fact that he was shit-canned by the league in 1993, but managed to sneak in the back door to the Majors again in 1999 when a slew of the umpires resigned as part of Richie Phillips' ill-advised labour negotiation tactics.
We can't wait to see Cuzzi umpire a Jays game this season.
6 comments:
All douchebaggery aside, I saw that pitch and it definitely was a strike.
We'd never say anything is a strike until Jon Hale tells us it is.
It wasn't just any pitch, Halladay hit him with a curveball. Who plunks someone with a curveball?
When Rocco is involved, the rules don't apply.
Is Rocco an Italian-American from New Jersey as well?
Did anyone see Paulie and Sil sitting behind home plate when this call was made?
Rocco is a Providence guinea, the kind that Billy Costigan hates the most.
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