August 17, 200322 yr More crap from the MLB offices... Roberto Alomar said he can't imagine that he would be suspended for his actions during Friday night's 11-5 loss to Texas. After getting ejected by plate umpire Phil Cuzzi for arguing balls and strikes, Alomar tossed his helmet toward home plate. "Suspend me for what?" Alomar asked. "Sometimes in the heat of the moment you do things you don't want to do, but I didn't hit anybody [with the helmet]. I may get a fine, but ... it wasn't [thrown] in his direction." Alomar, after being called out on strikes, said he told Cuzzi that the final pitch was outside. "That's all I told him," Alomar said. Cuzzi kept the conversation going, Alomar said. "I said, 'If you want to throw me out, I didn't say anything,'" Alomar said. "And that's what he did, he threw me out. I think he was getting grief from both sides. Just a bad night for him, maybe a bad night for me. We just move on." Carl Everett criticized Cuzzi's wide stroke zone after Friday night's game, saying, "Some guys may not say it, but the umpire was bad today." Cuzzi ejected manager Jerry Manuel and former third-base coach Wallace Johnson last year in Cleveland for arguing balls and strikes. "I thought maybe the umpire should have just left the scene and said, 'Hey, you're fined $100 [for throwing equipment]. That's it,'" Manuel said. "But that didn't happen." Alomar was asked if he's been extra careful with umpires since his well-publicized spitting incident with umpire John Hirschbeck in 1996. "I just be myself," he said. "That's in the past. That's a different story than what happened [Friday]. That's more the media than anything else."
August 17, 200322 yr More crap from the MLB offices... Roberto Alomar said he can't imagine that he would be suspended for his actions during Friday night's 11-5 loss to Texas. After getting ejected by plate umpire Phil Cuzzi for arguing balls and strikes, Alomar tossed his helmet toward home plate. "Suspend me for what?" Alomar asked. "Sometimes in the heat of the moment you do things you don't want to do, but I didn't hit anybody [with the helmet]. I may get a fine, but ... it wasn't [thrown] in his direction." Alomar, after being called out on strikes, said he told Cuzzi that the final pitch was outside. "That's all I told him," Alomar said. Cuzzi kept the conversation going, Alomar said. "I said, 'If you want to throw me out, I didn't say anything,'" Alomar said. "And that's what he did, he threw me out. I think he was getting grief from both sides. Just a bad night for him, maybe a bad night for me. We just move on." Carl Everett criticized Cuzzi's wide stroke zone after Friday night's game, saying, "Some guys may not say it, but the umpire was bad today." Cuzzi ejected manager Jerry Manuel and former third-base coach Wallace Johnson last year in Cleveland for arguing balls and strikes. "I thought maybe the umpire should have just left the scene and said, 'Hey, you're fined $100 [for throwing equipment]. That's it,'" Manuel said. "But that didn't happen." Alomar was asked if he's been extra careful with umpires since his well-publicized spitting incident with umpire John Hirschbeck in 1996. "I just be myself," he said. "That's in the past. That's a different story than what happened [Friday]. That's more the media than anything else." I must have missed that incident..Did he throw his helmet at the umpire?
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