Knuckle Curve » torn_acl http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve Major League Baseball News from Spring Training to the World Series Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Umpire Winters Suspended http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/umpire-winters-suspended/ http://www.everyjoe.com/knucklecurve/umpire-winters-suspended/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:44:23 +0000 Geoff Young http://www.knucklecurve.com/umpire-winters-suspended/ Post from: Knuckle Curve

]]> San Diego Padres outfielder Milton BradleyNot that this excuses Milton Bradley for his behavior in Sunday’s contest against the San Francisco Giants, but Mike Winters, the first-base umpire whom the Padres claimed provoked the incident, has been suspended by MLB for the remainder of the 2007 regular season. Bradley, whose tirade ended with his suffering a torn ACL after being tackled by his own manager, clearly has some anger issues; at the same time, it is — or should be — the responsibility of the umpires to keep situations from escalating.

According to San Diego first-base coach Bobby Meacham, hardly a hothead, Winters called Bradley a “bleeping piece of (expletive).” That doesn’t seem like a good strategy for keeping a situation from escalating.

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