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Bartolo Colon and the World's Most Excitable Ump
Published 5/22/2008 by Red (noreply@blogger.com) at Surviving Grady
And I thought I was pretty pumped for Colon's first game in a Red Sox uniform. Check the home plate ump's flirtation with interpretive dance on this third strike call in the first inning. The guy put so much bad English on that call, I thought I was seeing things... until Remy called him on histrionics. Check it, courtesy of our friends at NESN ...

Bartolo Colon and the Red Sox win; Umpire pulls a Frank Drebin
Published 5/22/2008 by The Bottomline (noreply@blogger.com) at The Bottom Line: A Boston Red Sox Blog
Red Sox 6 Royals 2 BL Hero: Ellsbury and Pedroia combine to go 6 for 9 with a walk at the top of the order. Ellsbury also scored 3 runs, stole his 19th base and hit a leadoff home run. Bartolo “El Gordo” Colon looked good in his return to the majors last night, throwing 74 pitches, 46 for strikes and fanning 4 batters over 5 solid innings. Colon did allow 2 runs, 2 walks and 6 hits, but as the Projo recaps, none of them were well struck: David DeJesus grounded an opposite-field single in the first; Joey Gathright threaded an opposite-field roller ...