Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Drake scratches itchy trigger thumb again

I wrote about vacation fill-in ump Rob Drake and his itchy trigger thumb last month after a particularly bad performance in a Cubs-Sox game.

Well, he was back last weekend for the Marlins-Cubs series, and he got busy again. After blowing a call at first where he called Mark DeRosa out, he launched first base coach Matt Sinatro when he went to argue, and then threw out Lou Piniella as well shortly after he arrived from the dugout.

This guy really knows how to throw gas on a fire. Won't the game be so much better when this guy gets up to the bigs for good?

DeRosa, by the way, did one of those stupid head first dives into the base. I have no idea why guys do that, but all it does is slow you down.

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