Piniella blasts reporter

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The Race
Published 5/3/2008 by Cubnut at A Hundred Next Years
Lou Piniella pulled Rich Hill from the first inning of tonight's game at St. Louis before he had given up a hit, but after he had walked four Cardinal hitters and forced in the first run of the evening. Coupled with Jon Lieber's mostly successful relief work this year (three scoreless innings of relief tonight at this writing, lowering Lieber's ERA to 1.93), Kerry Wood's third blown save of the season on Thursday, and Piniella's blow-up at a question asked by Jesse Rogers of WSCR in the post-game press conference, I'm wondering which of the following will occur first: ...

Lou Piniella, Media Critic
Published 5/3/2008 by Eamonn Brennan at FanHouse
... favorite cranky manager, Lou Piniella, had a bit of a dust-up this week when asked a relatively innocuous question by a radio reporter. Asked if he considered taking Alfonso Soriano out of the lineup and inserting someone less likely to embarass himself in the outfield, Pineilla kindly reiterated that he was not stupid, and then mumbled his way out of the press conference. It was, like almost all things Lou Piniella, totally awesome. Today, Piniella explains himself, and comes up with some pretty solid media juggles that Chicago's top two papers ...