bobby cox
This picture was taken at a recent charity event in Atlanta for homeless pets. We cannot put a finger on why it mesmerizes us so, but man, it does. We feel like we just watched that home movie in "The Ring." And we're not sure why. But hey: No Chipper in the steroid report!
call of the wild
To help celebrate Bobby Cox's record 132nd career ejection (
he was tossed again on Wednesday), Sons of Sam Malone compiled
the Top 5 Manager Ejections of recent years. It is a fine list, a noble list, and makes me want to crawl on all fours and pretend to lob a grenade. 'But hey,' you may be saying to yourself. 'What about when umpires go batshit crazy?' Yeah, that happens too. So I cobbled together five of those highlights as well. Pay close attention to No. 4, as the first base umpire appears to fire his gum at San Diego's Michael Barrett for no apparent reason.
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ejections
Bobby Cox tied the all-time Major League Baseball ejections record last night, getting tossed in a 2-1 loss against the Tigers.
That makes a total of 131 for Cox, tying John McGraw, who was tossed 117 times as a manager and 14 more as a player.
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take the rest of the night off
With Barry Bonds depressingly close to breaking Hank Aaron's record, we turn our eyes to a much more noble and compelling all-time mark: Bobby Cox's
quest to beat baseball's ejections record. He has been tossed 128 times, three away from John McGraw; our favorite stat is that he's 32 games away from being ejected for an entire season. He's not happy about the achievement, however.
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Anybody else find it kind of strange that former Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone
has left Atlanta to take the same job with Baltimore? We understand that he and Ike Turner manager Bobby Cox weren't exactly seeing eye-to-eye anymore — probably because of
all the rocking — and we also understand that one can only take so much Tomahawk Chop until one loses one's will to live. We even understand the presumed raise Mazzone got, though we can't imagine he couldn't have got more money from the Yankees.
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crime blotter
It is a tragic shame that Reds pitcher Jung Bong
was arrested last Friday, and it
wasn't for a drug-related offense. Nope, Bong took after his old manager Bobby Cox and was busted for strangling his wife, or, rather, causing red marks to appear on her neck.
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