I would love to watch that.

..so it messed up their rotation while in a division race. That’s understandable..it was ass-stupid to start that game, whoever’s decision it actually was…but Hawk obviously went way too far. Even Frank Thomas was in on it…he b*tched about every other pitch. It was extremely unprofessional.

I turn the sound off because I can’t stand listening to Hawk Harrelson.

I absolutely LOLed at the Linebrink pitch that was RIGHT DOWN THE FRICKIN MIDDLE and got called a ball. Hilarious! Linebrink and AJ just froze, like “Really?”

Also, Hawk is intolerable. Can’t stand listening to that guy.

When it was tied 2-2, he had mentioned something like “we had him struck out, but he hit an RBI.”

Then after the walk-off he said “That’s the third time they’ve scored after we had them struck out!” (i.e. all the runs the Royals scored of course) And that was followed by the quotes on that article.

Harrelson: This is absolutely … [five-second pause] … this is absolutely not right.

Thomas: This really sucks.

If they had West, Harrelson, and Guillen in a sold out US Cellular field and a bomb dropped on it, the World will have lost…… A bomb.

I’m always happy when Harrelson is unhappy at a Sox game.

West had a bad game. I seriously doubt he came into KC with the express purpose of screwing the White Sox over. Face it, this game featured winners and whiners, and we were the winners.

Go Twins – Bury the White Sox!

when they mentioned that the Sox should intentionally cross up their pitches. I remember hearing about this 2 years ago. Supposedly the kid lost his scholarship for poor sportsmanship after this got shown on ESPN.

I thought it was WAY overblown and it was just a 18 year old kid doing something stupid.

But in a way – an almost endearing way – that’s completely different than the effect Joe West has on me. Hawk is a baseball curmudgeon with a sickeningly sweet affinity for his hometown team. My skin crawls off my bones every time I hear him say “He gawn!” or “Galdarnit!” But that being said, Hawk IS a baseball man with genuine affection for the game and for his team. Joe West, on the other hand, is a self-promoting blowhard with the game of baseball far down on his list of priorities. He’s flat out bad for the game, not because of occasional bad calls, but for his disregard for the sport in general. His motivations are always in question and no baseball fan should have to dedicate time and effort to mulling the mind of an ump. Joe West has got to go. Hawk will be around forever and, though my skin will keep crawling away when I have to listen to him, that’s just as right as rain.

Most broadcasters don’t complain much about umpiring. Ken Harrelson does it all the time. And broadcasters almost never say or even imply that an ump is intentionally making bad calls to hurt a particular team. Harrelson does that at least a few times every season. His insanity is entertaining, but as a sports broadcaster/commentator/analyst, he’s a complete joke.

is whether Hawk was a worse GM than he currently is a broadcaster.

During [the 1986] season, Harrelson fired field manager Tony LaRussa (who was soon hired by the Oakland Athletics, whom he led to three consecutive AL pennants) and assistant general manager Dave Dombrowski (who became baseball’s youngest general manager with the Montreal Expos just two years later). Harrelson also traded rookie Bobby Bonilla, later a six-time All-Star, to the Pittsburgh Pirates for pitcher Jose DeLeon.

Am I the only one that read that and thought he died?