re braves update 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 when gant turned away hirschbeck immediately motioned for gant to step into the box imo at this point in time hirschbeck was determined to show gant exactly who was in charge of this game gant wasn t dawdling he hadn t had a chance to dawdle and hirschbeck was simply exercising a power play gant resisted as many of us might to what we thought was an unreasonable request and hirschbeck called for the pitch at that point cox came out on the field the pitch was thrown and many other braves left the dugout cox was tossed protecting his player i was pleasantly surprised that gant kept his cool enough to stay in the game 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 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 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 dale j stephenson steph cs uiuc edu baseball fanatic it is considered good to look wise especially when not overburdened with information j golden kimball
