As you probably know, there was another ejection Saturday. Derek Lee had a high and tight one come at his head and there was some jawing going on between Lee and Chris Young for the Padres. Much speculation is that this is in retaliation for Alfonso Soriano's admiration of a dinger he hit (instead of putting his head down and running the bases). It is being reported on Chicago radio that Young said "I wasn't aiming for your body. I was trying to take your ******* head off." Lee went off and threw some windmill punches that never landed. I was somewhat surprised when I saw it, because normally he's such a great contact hitter. Obviously he got run and so did the pitcher. Our hitting coach who was pulling Jake Peavy off Lee was also run along with Peavy (who stated the day before that he was upset with Soriano for the slow homer trot).
http://www.hardballtimes.com
Here is an interesting article on getting tossed. Apropos considering our amazing amount of ejections the past couple weeks. It is about Bobby Cox (who I despise), but there were some Cubs stats in there as well. Piniella, Durocher and Frankie Frisch, are on the top 10 all time. As well, I found the World Series ejections particularly entertaining. The Cubs are rarely in The Series, but look at how many times players and/or managers have been tossed! 3 Players in 1935 and 2 in 1910 including manager and famed double play combo anchor, Frank Chance. That's 22% of all WS ejections. FYI: Bench jockeying is yelling at someone from the dugout (had to look that one up). I also loved reading the reasons for the ejections. Proof of the old adage that arguing balls and strikes will get you tossed (almost) every time. Almost half of Cox's ejections are for critiquing the home plate umpire's zone.
