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CAN KEEP HIS leGLOVE.
***: THANK YOU, JIM.OU.
HERE IS MIKE GALLEGO, 3 7 IN
THIS SERIES.
A'S WITH RUERON FIRST
SECOND.
THAT'S MCGWI AT SECOND,
RANDOLPH AT FIRST.
AND ÷÷Y COONEY ARGUING WITH
TONY PENA,D JOE MORGAN GETS
INTO THE FRAY NOW.ñ÷
YOU DON'T OFTEN SEE A MANAGER
GET THROWN IN A PLAYOFF OR WORLD
SERIES.
EARL WEAVER HAS IN THE PAST.
JIM: ITHOUGHTPOSBLITWAS A
BALK CALL AND COONEY CAME FROM
BEHIND HOME PLATE.
MORGAN IS LIVID AND I'M
WONDERING WHETHER @HE'S EJECTED
CLEMENS.
FIRST OF ALL THE SCOUTING REPORT
ON THE UMPIRES.
AND THIS IS A ROTATION SYSTEM.
YOU DON'T T THE SIX TOP-RATED
UMPIRES BUT TERRY COONEY IS ONE
IF YOU ASK MANAGERS AND PLAYERS
HAS A VERY SHORT FUSE, TENDS TO
GET UPSET A LITTLE EASI
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE
***: COULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
THEY JUST THREW -- THEY JUST
THREW SOMETHING OUT TOWARDS VICK
VOLTAGGIO.
JIM: CLEMENS -- CLEMENS IS
COMING AFTER COONEY.
I THINK HE JUST REALIZED COONEY
HAS EED ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷O
THAT IN A GALIKE THIS YOU
DON'T THROW OUT A PITCHER.
JIM: UMPIRES USED TO BE LIKE THE
GRAND FATHER.
THEY WOULD WALK AY, LET YOU
HAVE A SAY AND LET ÷
HE SPOILED KID DOWN ON
THE CORNER, TGET COCKY D
ARROGANT AHAT'S THE RESULT.
***: A RED SOX COACH AND PLAYER
GET TANGLED UP IN THE DUG OUT.
QUES IS, DID COONEY
THROW OUT CLEMENS.
JIM: I CAN'T IMAGINE IT WASN'T
ROGER CLEMENS.
IF IT MEBODY ELSES
WOULDN'T BE THE GUY TRYING TO
GET AT HIM.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD TO
THROW A GUY OUT INA SITUATION
LIKE THIS, A GAME OF THIS
MAGNITUDE.
***: THAT COULD BE THE ONLY
THING THAT HAS THE RED SOX
ACTING LIKE THAT, THROWING
INGS FROM THE DUG OUT AND
MORGAN AND CLEMENS TRYING TO GO
AFTER THE UMPIRE.
JIM: NOW I SAW CLEMENS GO TO HIS
MOUTH AND I'M WONDERING WHETHER
MAYBE THE INITIAL CALL g÷WAS THT
COONSAID CLEMENS WENT HIS
MOUTH OR BALKED OR SOMETHING IN
REGARD TO THAT.
I DOUBT WHETHER THEY WOULD HAVE
THIS MUCH OF AN ARGUMENT OVER
SOMETHING THAT MINOR.
***: TONYA RUSSA ST LOOKS
Ñ÷
AS THE RED SOX HAVE EXPLODED.
THEY HAVE GONE OUT OF CONTROL.
ROGER CLEMENS, MORGAN AND THE
DUG OUT.
JIM: JOHN HIRSCHBECK, HE UMPIRE
IN YOUR PICTURE ALONG WITH PENA
TRYING TO CALM ROGER DOWN.
RE IS THE LOOK AT THE START OF
.
HERE IS CLEMENS.
AND HE'S SAYING SOMETHING RIGHT
THERE TO TERRY COONEY.
AND OBVIOUSLY IN REFERENCE TO
COONEY'S STRIKE ZONE.
THE FIRST PITCH, THE HIGH ONE TO
RAPH WAS CALL A STRIKE,
THE NEXT ONE IN THE SAME PLACE
WAS CALLED A BALL.
***: WE HAVEN'T SEEN
MOVEMENT IN THE RED SOX BULLPEN.
OR DUG OUT AS FAR AS GETTING
SOMEBODY ELSE UP TO THROW.
I WOULD THINK THAT THE LEAST
WOULD BE THE WARNING.
JIM: I DON'T CARE WHAT CLEMENS
SAID, IF HE DIDN'T CORUNNING
OFF THE MOUND.
THIS IS A SHAME.
DII THINK YOU USED THE RIGHT
WORD, TOTALLY ABSURD.
IF HE INDEED IS OUT OF THE GAME.
JIM: THE PLAYERS ARE EMOTIONALLY
INED.
÷÷THE UMPIRES DON'T HAVE TO BE.
IT'S THEIR JOB TO GIVE BOTH
TEAMS AN HONEST CHANCE TO WIN.
THERE IS NO NEED FOR THAT KIND
OF REACTION FROM AN UMPIRE.
I GUARANTEE YOU IF THE LATE
NESTOR SHYLACK OR CHARLESEY
BERRY WERE IN CONTROL OF THE
GAME YOU WOULDN'T SEE THIS
HAPPEN.
JIM: I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
SPEAK TO THE RED SOX PLAYERS
THEY SAID CLEMENS HAS BEEN UPSET
WITH THE STRIKE AND BALLS E
ENTIRE GAME AND HE HAD A LE
COMMOR THE UMPIRE AND
SUDDENLY HE WAS HEAVED OUT OF
THE GAME.
THE RED SOX ARE UPSET.
THEY SAY THIS IS A PLAYOFF GAME
AND YOU CAN'T THROW A GUY OUT
FOR ARGUING BALLS AND STRIKES.
BACK UP TO YOU.
***:
***: I THINK AT LEAST YOU GET A
WARNING AND THE UMPIRE COMEW OUT
AND SAYS MORE WORD FROMU
AND YOU ARE GONE AND YOU DOIT
WAY.
I DON'T THINK HE GOT THAT KINE
OF WARNING FROM COONEY.
JIM: THIS IS CLEMENS JAWING WITH
COONEY.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW.
UMPIRES WILL USUALLY COME OUT
AND WARN YOU OR SAY SOMETHING,
"HEY, YOU HAVE HAD YOUR SAY.
THAT'S ENOUGH." THIS IS NOTHING
NEW, TO ARGUE A BIT.
BUT TO COME OUT IN A PLAYOFF
GAME AS A HOME PLATE UMPIRE --
AND OF COURSE WE ENTIONED, WHEN
YOU TALK ÷÷TO PLAYERS AND MANAGS
AND FOLLOW THE LEAGUE ALL SEASON
YOU FIND OUT THE PERSONALITIES
OF DIFFERENT UMPIRES AND THIS IS
IN NO REGARD A COMMENT ON TERRY
COONEY'S ABILITY AS AN UMPIRE,
IT'S HIS TEMPERAMENT.
***: IT'S HIS JUDGMENT.
JIM: UNBELIEVABLE.
***: YES.
ROGER CLEMENS ISN'T THROUGH.
JIM: YOU CAN BET THAT WHOE
JOE MORGAN BRINGS IN RIGHT NOW
T APPEARS TOM BOLTON IS
TROTTING IN FROM THBULLPEN --
HE WILL DRAG THIS THING OUT,
HOPEFULLY GET AS MUCH TIME AS
NECESSARY, OF COURSE.
***: IT IS JUST HARD TO FATHOM.
THAT IN A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN A
SERIES LIKE THIS, AN UMPIRE ç÷
WOULD BECOME THE MAN ON THE
ER STAGE AOT THE PLAYER,
÷÷NOT THE PITCHER, IN A SITUATIN
LIKE THIS, AND ROGER CLEMENS,
WHETHER YOU ARE AN A'S FAN OR
RED SOX FAN, I THINK THE A'S
FEEL BAD.
IT ROBS THE FANS AND EVEN THE
A'S OF TRYING TO COMPETE AGAINST
A GREAT PITCHER.
WE WILL BACK IN A MOMENT.
>>Bob: HE HAS A LOST REASONS FOR
REVENGE AGAINST TAMPA BAY.
HE'S HAD TOUGH LUCK AGAINST THIS
BALL CLUB.
THE FIRST BATTER HE FACES IS
GERALD WILLIAMS.
THE LEADOFF HITTER WITH GOOD
POWER.
20 HOME RUNS, HE'S HITTING .283
WITH 83 RUNS DRIVEN IN.
>>Bob: IT'S WILLIAMS, CAIRO AND
GREG VAUGHN AGAINST PEDRO.
PEDRO'S AHEAD IN THE COUNT; 1-2.
>>Jerry: PEDRO STARTED WILLIAMS
OFF WITH A CURVEBALL.
THE LAST TIME HE FACED HIM HE
STARTED HIM WITH A FASTBALL AND
WILLIAMS PICKED UP A BASE HIT.
>>Bob: WILLIAMS 1-4 LAST NIGHT.
THE 1-2.
AND HE HIT HIM.
TRIES TO BUST HIM INSIDE.
AND WAYS AND MEANS WILLIAMS WITH
A LONG STAIR AT PEDRO.
AND HERE HE GOES!
GERALD WILLIAMS CHARGES PEDRO
MARTINEZ.
AND HERE WE GO.
BRIAN DAUBACH WAS JUST SLAMMED
AT THE MOUND BEHIND THE MOUND,
AND STILL IS THAT HERNANDEZ
GOING AFR BRIAN DAUBACH.
SOMEBODY'S GOT TO GET OVER TO
HELP DAUBACH.
>>Bob: GERALD WILLIAMS IS STILL
HOT AND BRIAN DAUBACH LOOKS LIKE
HE'S INJURED.
JIM RICE TRYING TO CONTAIN
WILLIAMS.
JERRY, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF
THOSE PUNCHES LANDS BUT WILLIAMS
DIDN'T CHARGE THE MOUND HE CAME
OUT SWINGING.
>>Jerry: I DON'T THINK THEY
LANDED.
YOU COULD ALMOST SEE THAT
HAPPENING.
THEY BEAT UP ON PEDRO LAST TIME
AND HE HITS THE GERALD WILLIAMS
THE FIRST BAT OF THE GAME AND
WILLIAMS GOES RIGHT TO THE
MOUND.
>> WELL, IT WAS A 1-2 PITCH.
>>Jerry: THERE'S STILL RUMBLING
OUT THERE.
DAUBACH IS HURT BAD.
I COULDN'T TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO
HIM.
HE THINK HE GOT SLAMMED TO THE
GROUND BY SOMEBODY.
INTO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT
WHOLE THING UNFOLD AGAIN,
BECAUSE ROBERTO HERNANDEZ WAS
REALLY GOING AFTER DAUBACH AFTER
DAUBACH WAS ALL ALONE WITH FOUR
DEVIL RAYS GOING AFTER HIM.
>>Jerry: WELL, MY GUESS IS HE'S
IN THERE TRYING TO PROTECT THE
PITCHER.
EVERYBODY CHARGES TOWARD THE
MOUND TO TRY TO PROTECT THE
PITCHER AND SOMEBODY MUST HAVE
BLIND SIDED HIM OR SOMETHING
HAPPENED.
AND PEDRO SHOULD NOT BE THROWN
OUT OF HIS BALL GAME BUT
CERTAINLY WILLIAMS SHOULD BE.
>> NO WAY SHOULD PEDRO BE THROWN
OUT.
>>Jerry: WILLIAMS IS STILL
ACTING LIKE HE WANTS TO GET AT
PEDRO.
HE'S NOT LIKELY TO GO TO THE
CLUBHOUSE EASY.
>>Bob: AND WE COULD BE IN FOR AN
INTERESTING NIGHT HERE AT
TROPICANA FIELD.
DAUBACH LOOKS LIKE HE WILL STAY
IN THE GAME.
SO... HOPEFULLY HE'S NOT
INJURED.
NOW JIMY WILLIAMS WANTS TO TALK
TO THE UMPIRES AND FOUND OUT
WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO.
OBVIOUSLY THERE WILL BE WARNINGS
ISSUED.
IAMS IS NOT HEADING INTO THE
CLUBHOUSE YET.
HE'S STANDING AGAINST THE FRONT
SIDE OF THE DUGOUT.
CLEARLY HE HAS TO BE EJECTED.
>>Bob: JOSE OFFERMAN BEING HELD
BACK AS WELL.
HE'S PRETTY HOT.
>>Bob: AND TOMMY HARPER IS
HOLDING BACK JOSE OFFERMAN ALONG
THE THIRD BASE-LINE.
DAUBACH IS PLAYING CATCH AND HE
LOOKS LIKE HE'S OKAY.
HIS HEART HAD TO BE POUNDING,
ROBERTO HERNANDEZ LOOKING DOWN
ON HIM.
>>Jerry: THEY OUGHT TO BE
CAREFUL BECAUSE WILLIAMS IS
STILL LOOSE OUT THERE AND HE
MAYBE IN THE FRAME OF MIND TO GO
CHARGING BACK TO THE MOUND SO
THEY BETTER BE CAREFUL AND TAKE
CARE OF PEDRO HERE.
>> I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DON'T
HAVE WILLIAMS GONE ALREADY.
>>Jerry: HE SHOULD BE OUT OF
HERE ALREADY.