Hawk Harrelson is the Dumbest Man in America

And his co-host is the second-dumbest. I am watching a re-broadcast of yesterday's Cubs-Sox game, where in the 8th inning the Sox' SS, Juan Uribe, threw a check on a Cubs baserunner as he rounded second. Two umps clearly signalled obstruction (and to boot, me and nine drunks in a bar watching it live yesterday all yelled "obstruction!" when it happened live)--and yet, and yet!, Hawk Harrelson, the Sox' announcer, and his co-host, are going on and on about how this is a straightforward situation and the umps are all wrong. Neither of them seems to know what the play was. They think it had something to do with the rundown that happened after the Cubs player who was interfered with fell down (because of the body check from the Sox player). They both--and especially Harrelson, a former major leaguer--are screaming about how the guy should have been out. Harrelson swears he never heard of such a thing--and he's proclaiming that the umps are corrupt and have just created a new rule that has never been seen in a game before.

Really, Hawk? You never saw obstruction before? You don't know what a rule is? Your eyes don't work? Brain broken?

What am I saying--the title of this post says it all. Stupid motherfucker.

For the record: when obstruction is called, the play continues and, if the player who was obstructed is out and the umpire believes it to be the result of the obstruction, then he may reverse the out and award the player the base he believes he would have gotten to if not inetefered with. That's what happened yesterday. See here.

Of course, asking Hawk Harrelson, that venerable icon of the South Side, to use a computer is like asking a monkey to wipe its ass.