Hey ump, you stink!
You have probably seen the video of Wichita Wingnuts manager Kash Beauchamp's blowup and unique way of telling an umpire that his calls stink. If you haven't seen this, here it is:
Check out the video here.
Beauchamp manages the Wichita Wingnuts of the independent American Association. Former Wild Things pitching coach Kevin Pincavitch (2005) spent several years as player for Beauchamp and more as one of his coaches. Kevin always spoke highly of Beauchamp.
Also, there is another Wild Things connection to Beauchamp. The Wingnuts earlier this week signed form Wild Things pitcher Kevin Foeman.
Check out the video here.
Beauchamp manages the Wichita Wingnuts of the independent American Association. Former Wild Things pitching coach Kevin Pincavitch (2005) spent several years as player for Beauchamp and more as one of his coaches. Kevin always spoke highly of Beauchamp.
Also, there is another Wild Things connection to Beauchamp. The Wingnuts earlier this week signed form Wild Things pitcher Kevin Foeman.
posted by Chris Dugan at
11:50 AM
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Wow! Does the participation ever drop off when the blog gets steered away from how screwed up the Wild Things can be. Everybody pretend that all is well now, then kick back and watch how boring this blog becomes. It’s starting already. Yawn
You can thank drbob for that!Had to shoot off his yap with a question he could easily e-mailed directly to Chris.
Thanks drbob!
I wonder how Gentle Jelks reacted after the disaster tonight?
The Wild Things have 7 saves and 8 blown saves this season.
I would say there is a lot of BULL in the bullpen.
Once again, the Wild Things snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Jelks can blame nobody than himself!
How is Heisel's blown save tonight, or Rivera's loss, the fault of Greg Jelks?
Please, your vitrolic hatred is bordering upon insanity...
Since things seem a little slow right now, I guess it would be a good time for my 1st, and probably, last annual evaluation of the Washington Wild Things Front Office. I’m sure they have been anxiously awaiting my assessment of their job performance thus far this year. Accordingly, so as not to keep them stressed out any longer, here goes: (Keep in mind this is tongue-in-cheek – so please don’t anybody get pissed –except perhaps the usher nazi person, that is allowed). I’ll post it in two parts.
Part 1
John Swiatek, President/Managing Partner – Shadowy figure, always lurking in the background. One can never tell exactly what he is up to, but I think it has something to do with counting money. Extremely good at this part of the job. Job Rating Superior!
Frani Williams, Esq, Partner – What’s up with that Esquire thing? Sounds too much like an attorney to me. So he won’t sue me for something I’ll be sure to give him some slack here. I know that last time anyone called me esquire I was still crawling around the floor in knee pants. I’ve always admired attorneys – I just love Edgar Snyder, don’t we all? Job Rating – Excellent!
Ross Vecchio, General Manager – Gee, this is a tough one! Always running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Has to deal with all sort of mental cases like left handed pitchers, and me! To top it off he also has to deal with usher nazis. One of these ushers would make Seinfeld’s soup nazi look like an amateur! During the summer months he has to take a second job to keep the Wild Things head above water – he sells cookies and milk. Now you talk about multi-tasking - now if those cookies were only fresh! Ross also really needs a new haberdasher – which is for sure! Job Rating: Insuffiencent data to made an accurate judgement. Probably should be recommended for promotion, but to what?
Chris Blaine, Dir. of Marketing & Communication – Is that a job title or what? I think it means she listens to people like me whine all the time – not real sure about that though. No matter what she does I just love this lady (sure hope my wife doesn’t figure that out!). Job Rating: Vastly Superior
Kathleen Williams, Controller – What is a Controller? I think she pays the bills. Wait, that can’t be it - the Wild Things don’t have bills to pay do they? No matter, the Wild Things still seem to be afloat so she is probably doing a fine job. Job Rating: Excellent – beside that, she may be a relative of that Williams, Esquire dude!
Joe Traynor, Mgr of Ticket Sales/Box Office Ops – Now doesn’t that title sound just like something straight out of Hollywood? I know Joe however, and he ain’t no movie star! Trust me on this one!. Joe is a good guy and a problem solver. However, even he can’t solve that pesky usher problem. This man is probably severely underpaid – no person should have to sweat like that to earn a living. Doesn’t he realize this is 2008 and that liberal Democrat guy from Illinois is coming to fatten up the welfare checks soon?
The BULLPEN disaster is not Gentle Gregg's fault. He tries to get the best out of the players assigned to him. Apparently the scouting of relivers needs to be relieved of their duties.
Sunday is the Wild Thing bobble head night. I wonder which will show up?
The real Wild Thing
or
The generic wild thing?
When the real Wild Thing is present, most fans forget about the bull pen as they are looking for the Wild Thing to warm up.
When the generic wild thing shows up, most people go to the rest rooms during the 7th inning workout!!!!
Front Office job evaluation - Part 2
Greg Thompson, Sales Acct. Executive – What’s that? Darned if I know but the Wild Things have a whole gaggle of them. Where are they coming from? Greg, despite my earliest impression of him, is a darn good guy. He willingly (I think) does double duty. He is a better man than me because I’d tell them where they could……..never mind; just mentally delete most of that sentence. Anyhow, Greg has proven to me that he deserves a BIG promotion – He probably won’t get because befriending me is the “kiss of death” at the former Falconi Field. Sorry for giving you a bad time Greg, you really didn’t have it coming! Job Rating: Excellent+
Phil Agostinelli, Director of Food and Beverage – Well Phil, we REALLY need to talk. Judging from the taste of some of that stuff being served up at the concession stands this year, in particular, the hot dogs, I’d say they were closer to hush puppies! I not talking about that fine southern cuisine but the ones kids wear on their feet! That last hot dog had so much soy filler in it that I farted for three days after eating it. Now I’ve got to tell you something Phil, and this is just between to two of us, that’s really tough on my 71 year old hemorrhoids. “Rhoid Rage’ isn’t a pretty thing when it happens to a senior citizen. Sure glad I still have health insurance! Then there is that $3 bag of peanuts that I bought from some loud kid that drags that tray full of stuff around.. I only bought them to keep him from blowing my already damaged eardrums outthe rest of the way. Well, after about 30 seconds of relief from this ear pounding, I start to eat my peanuts. You know after spending $3 for so few peanuts I sort of expected that they would really be good (I figured that they cost about 12 cents each but I’m not good at math), But were they good???? Nooooooooo – they were so stale they almost have to have been left over form the 2005 All Star game!! Honestly Phil you probably really should either consider a career change or be forced to eat this stuff every day! Job Rating: I’ll be kind and give you an F! Sorry buddy but that how it seems to me. The ice cream isn’t bad though!!!
As far as the remaining front office staff goes – who are all younz guys? Do you really work there?
I’m sure you all work hard and I’m not kidding about that.
One more thing I’d like to know – why is it called the ‘front office’ when most of you work in the back offices?
I’m just joking about all this so – PLEASE don’t anyone be offended - ‘cept maybe the uaher n**i. If you are ------ goooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ron Wilson
Illegitimati non carborundum!
Say hate guy, it’s vitriolic not vitrolic – how are we supposed to know what you are trying say? I think I guessed this one correctly.
Gelks Gelks is probably a nice guy – I don’t know, but I don’t think he is a good manager. Looks to me as though you are trying to start something racial here that doesn’t exist! It didn’t seem like a hate comment to me.
Ron,
Very good analysis of the front office (most of which are in the background)
I will give you an A+ and as a reward, you should be promoted to give an analysis of the manager, coaches and players.
About the food service, I think they finally have found a way to reduce the wait in concession lines!
OVER CHARGE FOR FOOD THAT SUCKS!!!!
Llib,
Thanks, just trying to lighten things up a bit. I would really like to do something about the coaching staff and players. However these are young healthy athletes filled with enough testosterone to sink the Queen Mary in her sailing days. They have their pride and most likely would not take too kindly to my, caustic at times, sense of humor. Not being ready to stop receiving my Social Security checks due to my demise, I think I’d better take a pass on anything like that! However, I have to say this about Chris Sidick – I just love his style of play – what a joy to watch a guy with such a strong desire to win. One doesn’t see that much in baseball anymore. Most players seem to be like Rodney King “Can’t we just all get along?” To hell with that sort of crap. Chris is, to paraphrase some female politician, ‘in it to win it'! That is the way it should be. You notice he didn’t mind knocking a guy on his ass at second base in Saturday’s game. Most players would have just rather be an out than do that. Show me a ball player that is grinning after losing a game and I’ll show you a REAL honest to God loser – period!
I sure see a lot of that grinning going on these days. IMHO - Not good!!
Ron Wilson
Illegitimati non carborundum!
Very tough game to watch tonight. I hate though that you blame Jelks. He brings in one guy who almost blows the lead but gets out. Then brings in a guy who was an all-star last year and he blows it and gives Heisel the short leash and the next guy almost gets out of it but doesn't. What can a manager do when he has to burn 4 relievers in an inning to lose the game. And by the way you like to joke about him taking his time going out to the mound, it's called buying time for the bullpen. More like bull sh**pen.
You're very welcome.
Anonymous said
“you like to joke about him taking his time going out to the mound, it's called buying time for the bullpen.”
If that is true, and it is in most cases, why do you suppose he does that same thing when going to the dugout from the clubhouse? He s probably scared crapless of what is going to happen when the bullpen starts to get into action later in the game, so he doesn’t even want the game to start! To steal a line from poster llib, “that’s a tough situation to ‘walk’ away from”. Is he buying time for people to get into the stands? Perhaps he is just “buying time’ for the unfortunate people still in the indigestion lines to get back to their seats. If so, that’s really very thoughtful of Ol “Fireball”. Perhaps he is concerned that he might bleed some of the ‘energy’ from Consol Energy Park, AKA the former (and better named Falconi Field). Who would have ever thought that the Wild Things would drop Mr. Falconi’s name like a hot potato for some of those big corporation dollars? I was shocked!!! LOL.
Ron Wilson
BTW: Mr, Jelks – I’m only kidding please don’t be offended! I mean no disrespect to you. If I ever had anything to say to you that I felt needed to be said – I would say it to your face – of course I’d have my running shoes on! “Fireball is an affectionate nickname – I think! But not THAT affectionate!!! It’s a shame I have to stick a sort of ‘disclaimer’ on some of my post. However, this is southwestern Pennsylvania and dry humor here is not usually easily accepted. I know that - but I don’t understand it. . Yunz all should really try to ‘lighten up’ a little and laugh more, or at least smile. I know life is tough in the “Rust Belt” but humor is free! Take advantage of it! You will probably feel better and live longer! END OF SERMON!! Flame away!!
Remember: Illegitimati non carborundum! – I sure know I won’t!!!!
So i read the front desk evaluations. (excuse my writing im not a good speller) But that thing about the peanut boy is SO true. When i hear him coming i just want to bolt in the other direction!! He is the most annoying thing ever who wants to hear that screaming pretty much the whole game??
I wish anonymous would nut up or shut up with their assessment of the Wild Things' front office staff. Why don't you walk a mile in their shoes and see if their jobs are so easy your judgmental twit! And the reason why MS. WILLIAMS has esquire after HER name is because SHE has an JD.
In this case, JD must mean janitorial degree.
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