re braves update in article steph pegasus cs uiuc edu steph pegasus cs uiuc edu dale stephenson writes in c sysg kad odin corp sgi com luigi sgi com randy palermo writes in article news duke edu fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu eric roush writes did you see the same game i saw gant most reasonable argued a horrible call which hirschbeck correctly did nothing about gant then proceeded to walk halfway to rd base lean on his bat and glare at hirschbeck while i don t necessasarily subscribe to the theory of showing people up this was an obvious attempt by gant to do so to hirschbeck he left hirschbeck no choice but to take control of the situation the bottom line is gant started a dangerous power struggle with hirschbeck when his team needed him most and he lost the events i saw were called strike by hirschbeck was it just me or did it look like hirschbeck pointed to the b umpire before calling that strike i thought that s why gant was asking for the appeal to the st base umpire he thought hirschbeck had gotten checked swing help from the wrong umpire shocked looking gant asks for appeal to first no appeal to first gant steps out of batters box hirschbeck immediately orders gant back in bad move gant ignores hirschbeck and walks off bad move hirschbeck yells at gant gant is silent hirschbeck calls for the pitch after hirschbeck called for the pitch but before the pitch was thrown cox came onto the field it was obvious that he was trying to get time called before the pitch but no one was watching pitch is called a strike cox argues couldn t see when he came on the field cox is ejected players everywhere play finally resumes gant shouldn t have ignored hirschbeck not returning made the strike call fairly likely although i suspect an argument might have gotten gant tossed altogether but if hirschbeck had let gant step out the whole incident probably would have been avoided your listing pretty much agreed with what i saw with the aforementioned addendums perhaps it appeared differently at the ballpark personally i was amazed that gant didn t get ejected but that s why cox did it s called protecting your players and to those people who would have thrown everyone out of the game all i can say is that you d be making baseball history even in the worst baseball brawls usually only the major instigators are ejected not everyone who comes onto the field and i d have to say that those brawls are considerably more threatening to the game than what the braves did fri night anyhow that s my last two cents on the subject barring outrageous postings i will try to keep my eyes open for more incidents involving hirschbeck i think there will be some with other teams as well i hope not eric
