suntimes.com
Jul 27, 2008
Sleeping Beauty or Sleeping Bat-ty? Cubs probably just in a bad spell BY GREG COUCH Sun-Times Columnist Trouble in Disney World. Is that what we have here? The Cubs are letting reality creep into their little perfect fairy tale? Sleeping Beauty won't wake up. Tie game, ninth inning, and you know what that means. Aramis Ramirez cranks a homer. Nope, not this time. Instead, on Saturday first base coach Matt Sinatro threw down his helmet as he charged an umpire, who had made a correct call. Sinatro was thrown out, and Lou Piniella came out of the dugout, ambling to first, where he was thrown out, too. ''I went out there, actually, to get my coach off the field,'' Piniella said. ''The only thing I said to the umpire was, 'Why are you so antagonistic?' '' Piniella stayed awhile to yell at other umpires, and somewhere in there, his...
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