Orioles pitcher Daniel Cabrera was fined and suspended for six games by Major League Baseball two...

Orioles pitcher Daniel Cabrera was fined and suspended for six games by Major League Baseball two days after being ejected and accused of intentionally throwing at New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.

Cabrera is expected to appeal the suspension and make his next scheduled start Sunday against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field. Orioles president Andy MacPhail said that the suspension was automatic once Cabrera was ejected by home plate umpire Chad Fairchild.

"I anticipated that was going to happen because once he makes that judgment, it's automatic," MacPhail said. "I don't think the umpire made the proper judgment because the game situation didn't call for that. But he made the judgment that he did and we'll go from there. We're going to encourage the player to appeal it and I'm confident that they'll look favorably on the appeal."

Yankees reliever Edwar Ramirez was also fined and suspended, but for three games after he threw a pitch on Wednesday over the head of Orioles first baseman Kevin Millar. He was immediately ejected and later earned the scorn of Millar, who referred to the pitcher as a "cute little fella," who "doesn't throw that hard and doesn't have very good stuff."

Cabrera suspended six games for throwing at A-Rod
This whole thing is a travesty, a sham and a mockery...it's a traveshamockery!
Seriously, how do they not get the same amount of games for the same offense?

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reliever vs. starter

I don’t necessarily agree with it, but Cabs will miss one game. Edwar will miss three.

On appeal it might end up being zero for danny vs. 1 for edwar or something, i dunno.

Also, sweet quote by Kevbo

by pipkin on Jul 31, 2008 9:28 PM EDT 0 recs

R vs S is a good point

Hadn’t thought of it that way.

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 9:32 PM EDT up 0 recs

Better yet...

he called Edwar “good hittin’”.

It’s like “good eatin’”, but without the cannibalism inference.

From the Land of Pleasant Living...

by OEutaw on Aug 1, 2008 12:07 AM EDT up 0 recs

I am really pissed off about this

They are just rubber stamping what was a stupid call by an inexperienced home plate umpire in the first place. So they are mindlessly magnifying a mistake. Anybody got an e-mail address for the MLB nitwits who do this kind of crap?

by leeotis on Jul 31, 2008 9:32 PM EDT 0 recs

Suspension was automatic

once he got ejected. Since he’s a starter, it’s 6 games, to guarantee he misses one start. But once he got the heave-ho, he was gonna get suspended.

by duck on Jul 31, 2008 10:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

That makes it an even bigger mistake by the ump.

Guy’s cruising along, mowing ‘em down, has a nice comfy lead, makes one mistake pitch.
Next time through the order he unloads a pitch to the wrong spot, high & inside.

Not behind, not over the head, not drilling the guy, a little up & in.

No warning, you’re gone & as an ump I know I just cost you a 6-game suspension?!?

By this line of reasoning, no pitcher can ever throw inside (intentionally or otherwise) to any player who has success against him earlier in the game. If a ball ends up near the batter, the pitcher will be tossed & suspended.

That’s so far over the line that the line is a dot to them.

From the Land of Pleasant Living...

by OEutaw on Aug 1, 2008 12:07 AM EDT up 0 recs

It always makes me laugh when fans boo a pitcher

that throws at a hitter to put the go-ahead run on first base in the bottom of the eighth. “I can guarantee you, folks, he wasn’t trying to hurt him.”

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Aug 1, 2008 2:02 AM EDT up 0 recs

Peter Schmuck wasn't completely convinced that the pitch was accidental

Which means that the Yankees announcer, Michael Kay, was less suspicious of Cabrera than our new blogger. What a tool.

by Y Not on Aug 1, 2008 5:26 AM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah I read that quote. Schmuck was a dolt on this on to say it was intentional.

I thought Danny was trying to throw high and tight. Push A-Rod off the plate and send a little message. The ball had a ton of movement and was not drilled at his head or body. We all know about Danny’s control. I think high and tight became way too tight. It was definitely a pitch with a purpose. I just don’t think the purpose was to bean A-Rod.

The Ramirez head-hunting pitch was way more egregious.

by drj on Aug 1, 2008 8:39 AM EDT up 0 recs

Nice Joey Tribbiani Reference

Friends Episode 4.07

Chandler: You’re right. I have no excuses. I was totally over the line.

Joey: Over the line? You… you.. you’re so far past the line that you can’t even see the line! The line is a dot to you!

Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...

Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.

-From "The Making of Orioles Magic"

by dayzd toe on Aug 1, 2008 8:49 AM EDT up 0 recs

The symptoms of my former Friends addiction

are so hard to shake… :-)

From the Land of Pleasant Living...

by OEutaw on Aug 1, 2008 9:22 AM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah... me too.

I know I’ve seen every episode, like, 27 times, but my wife and I still can’t resist turning on pretty much every re-run when the O’s aren’t on…. And we STILL laugh at everything we laughed at the first time.

Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...

Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.

-From "The Making of Orioles Magic"

by dayzd toe on Aug 1, 2008 9:36 AM EDT up 0 recs

Seek help

by PhilR8 on Aug 1, 2008 10:06 AM EDT up 0 recs

Or the Office

Although the third season of that show might have been its best.

by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 1, 2008 10:58 AM EDT up 0 recs

I didn't think I liked the office

but then the lunch place here at work started looping the first season on dvd during lunch hours… wow, what a great show. It’s hilarious and sad and sadly hilarious, all at the same time.

by PhilR8 on Aug 1, 2008 11:55 AM EDT up 0 recs

I'm not going to lie

I’ve seen every episode in seasons 2 and 3 at least 5 times and I still laugh, but I hate the soap opera feel that I thought season 4 had.

by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 1, 2008 12:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

that's crazy

Yes, I should say that, which, I should say that.

by thewaywardO on Jul 31, 2008 10:03 PM EDT 0 recs

Kevbo

Made me laugh.

I cared about the suspension, and then I realized that we dont lose anything from it anyways. Just another meaningless game.

by Reddrummer9187 on Jul 31, 2008 10:25 PM EDT 0 recs

Don't talk like that

by jobe on Aug 1, 2008 2:03 AM EDT up 0 recs

It does matter though

I want our team to be proven right!

The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST

by the fix is in on Aug 1, 2008 12:49 AM EDT 0 recs

Amateurs.

by Y Not on Aug 1, 2008 5:49 AM EDT 0 recs

MLB always backs up their umpires

So the suspension was a foregone conclusion when Danny was tossed. You also have to suspend Cabrera for more days than Edwar because he’s a starter, and a 3 day suspension has no effect on him.

But something needs to be done about Joe Girardi. This is at least the third time a Yankee pitcher has gone headhunting this year (Joba v Youk, LaTroy v Luuuuke) and there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence that this stuff is coming from the dugout.

Suspend the meathead.

by dkdc on Aug 1, 2008 9:49 AM EDT 0 recs