Special Edition Umpire Fuck Up

You know, for all that Wedge did to fuck up today’s game, I have to hand it to the umpires because they really one upped him this afternoon. You would think that they would have learned after the fucking Jeter HR 13 years ago. You would think that they could at least redeem themselves after getting a chance to look at the replay. You would be wrong.

The fucking asshole clearly, clearly reached over the wall for the ball. Watch the replay, his entire glove is over the field and his arm/glove is casting a shadow on the wall. On top of that, his glove (as well as a second fan eventually) hits Trevor Crowe’s glove. Finally, the ball lands about four inches behind Crowe’s glove…directly behind it, meaning that he was in position, the exact right position, to catch the ball. That is textbook fan interference. Not a home run. Not a fucking ground rule double with runners on second and third. Fan interference, ie. Posada is out, runner goes back to first, Indians still up one. Although that is clearly what happened, I could have lived with a ground rule double with the Tribe still on top, but to count that bullshit as a fucking home run, are you fucking kidding me?!?! I swear to God, I still can’t believe tat just happened. Fuck the Yankees, fuck the umpires, fuck Eric Wedge, fuck that fucking fan, fuck this shit.

April 19th Fuck Up

Holy Shit! You would think that after more than six years as a Major League manager, Eric Wedge would have some fucking clue as to how to work a pitching staff. Why in the fucking hell would you bring in Rafey Perez in the 7th inning today. He has been struggling all year and has pitched horribly in April throughout his career and you have literally your entire bullpen to call on, yet you go with him. First of all, Pavano would have been a better choice to come out for the 7th than Perez, but anyway, Perez has struggled mightily this year, especially against lefties, yet you bring him in to face two lefties. Use Betancourt. Use Pavano. Use Jackson. Use Smith. Use Kobayashi. But no, you use Perez, and then when he unsurprisingly does not retire either batter, you go to Jensen Lewis, who again, has been struggling a shitton this year. Why? Use Betancourt…Smith…Kobyashi…I mean come on.

All you had to do was start the inning with Pavano and move to Betancourt, or just bring in Raffy Right at the start of the 7th, and use Wood for a two inning save. Again, he has hardly pitched at all this year, when he has he has barely thrown any pitches, and you have an off day tomorrow, he can work two frickin innings. Betancourt on the other hand has always been better when used for an inning at a time, yet you try to stretch him out over two innings…I swear I can’t believe that you don’t drown in the fucking rain Eric, seriously.

22-4

Gotta love a good old fashioned whuppin of the fucking Yankees. How does 14 runs in an inning feel? How does getting your asses handed to you twice in the first three games at you $1.5 billion stadium feel? Not as bad as that feeling you get every night knowing that at the end of the day you are still a Yankee, I’m sure, but I’m guessing it still doesn’t feel great. Fuck the Yankees!!

April 17th Fuck Up…Wow, he actually went an entire day without fucking up…and we’re back to normal

Vinny Chulk? Vinny Fucking Chulk? What in the fuck is Wedge thinking? I don’t care if the Rafeies are unavailable. I don’t care if Reyes only lasted 5 innings. I don’t care that Zach Jackson struggled, you want to save Jensen Lewis for the 8th, or that you would prefer not to use Wood for 3 innings, with a one run lead in the 7th inningYOU SHOULD NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT CONSIDERING TO LET VINNY CHULK EVEN TOUCH A BASEBALL, LET ALONE ACTUALLY PUTTING HIM IN THE DAMN GAME! You fucking idiot, leave Joe Smith in the fucking game. He has a sub 3 ERA working out of a bullpen that couldn’t get Bob Uecker out more than once in twenty at bats, only threw 5 pitches in the 6th, has not even pitched a full four innings yet this year, has not given up a single run against the Yankees in his career, and most importantly, is not Vinny Chulk. Why the fuck would you go out and trade the best defensive outfielder in the game for a set up man who you won’t use in a set up situation? And why would you instead bring in a journeyman minor league free agent who didn’t even make the team out of spring training and gave up a grand slam three days ago…to the fucking Royals? For Gods sake, use Lewis for the 7th and bring in a ridiculously underused Kerry Wood (who only has 3 appearances and has made only 20 pitches in the last week) for a two inning save. Hell, I’d even rather see him bring in Masa Kobayashi in the 7th than Chulk, I mean really.

The only explanation I can come up with is that Wedge was just too freaked out by his utter inability to fuck up yesterday’s game (even though he did try by removing his cleanup hitter and replacing the righthanded hitting everyday leftfielder with a rookie, lefthanded hitter one against old Cashin Checks Sabathia) and felt compelled to redouble his efforts today. Fortunatley for him, even though Chulk was somehow able to stagger through a 31 pitch (14 for balls) inning only giving up one run, Derek Jeter got a nice bloop homer in the 8th to put the Yankees ahead 6-5. Although if Lewis faces the bottom of the order in the 7th and Jeter is hitting off of Wood, the Indians likley take a 5-4 lead to the 9th and don’t have to face Rivera needing a run to tie. So, yeah, it didn’t go exactly as you planned, but congratulations Eric, you were still able to lose yet another game today.

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April 15 Fuck Up

Well, the Indians are in Kansas City and Wedgie is in top form yet again. So you’ve got a one run lead, runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out, your righthanded reliever, Joe Smith, who you just brought in for this batter, has just struck out the Royals cleanup hitter easily. The next batter is a lefty. You’ve got another righty in the pen. Why the fuck do you make the switch? Especially when you are just going to pitch around the hitter anyway…but then again, we’re talking about Eric fucking Wedge, so I guess that is just par for the course.

Ok, I thought that was going to be it for today, but I was sadly mistaken. After bringing in Lewis, Wedge not only watched him walk in the tying run (without so much as getting anyone up in the pen), not only brought him back for a second inning of work in the 7th (in which he gave up another run after being handed the lead by the offense), but put him out there yet again in the 8th! Finally, after giving up a line drive single to Mark Teahen and a home run to Mike Jacobs, Wedge got off of his lazy ass and made a change. Luckily, Teahen had foolishly decided to test Big League Choo’s arm and was thrown out at second mere moments before Jacobs took Lewis yard. As of now Wedge has not yet been able to loose the game for the Tribe…but there is still an inning left…

April 14th Fuck Up

You’ve got a team that is struggling in every facet of the game, including scoring runs, you have started out 1-6 and people are finally starting to realize how bad of a manager you are, and your starter gave up 9 runs in his first start. So Eric Wedge, what are you going to do? Why give your best hitter (at least so far this year) a second day off in less than a week and replace him in the lineup, not with a semi-proven, middle of the order, RBI producing Ryan Garko, but with rookie Trevor Crowe who has all of two hits in his career. And lets not forget that Hafner is a fucking DH. One day off a week is more than enough for a guy who was pronounced 100% ready to go for the season and is only required to go up and swing the bat 5 times a day. But obviously, he has his reasons.

Then again, if we have learned anything in the Eric Wedge Era, it is that, if he can make a bad decision, he most definitely will. Yeah Raffy Perez is one of your horses that you are going to need out of the pen this year, but he has struggled mightely thus far in 2009. So after getting a scoreless inning out of Perez, Wedge decided to run him out there for another fucking inning. Why? Why push your luck? He gave you a good inning, use that to build on and bring in someone else for the 8th inning Eric. But no, he lets Perez struggle through 5 hitters (getting only 1 out) before going to the pen…to bring in Vinny Chulk!?!? Now I don’t know much about Chulk, but he was brought up a couple days ago as a long man and, at the time, Wedge had every reliever available. That means Raffy Right, Raffy Left, Smith, Kobayashi (who has looked pretty good so far), Lewis, hell, even Wood, were all options, yet he goes with Chulk. A few pitches later, and the game is over. Wede needs to go.

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