Sabo breaks bat, ejected for corked lumber

You have to look towards what this year what kind of impact that player will have on this season of course and what it's going to happen next year. So if you go out and get a player like a Greg Vaughn he's been mentioned a number of times a slugger from Milwaukee if the Reds can't afford to resign him after this year then why would you give up some prize prospects to rent him for two months and the other side of it too is that the state that the Reds are in yes they're in the pennant race in the Central Division but it's clear they don't have a wealth of players at the minor league level that they can afford to lose two or three or four of them here's the three to disable two broken bats and two swings I'll have to get another piece of lumber he's going to stick with it I guess he thinks it's OK it sure sounded like he broke it but for a general manager today used to be you made a deal at this time of year because you wanted to stay in a pennant race you didn't consider the financial ramifications or the the minor league ramifications now those two things often come before the final decision it was it's broken and now it's broken for good Miller has it won away that was sawed off if there ever was one instant kindling right here for Chris Sabo I swear I think it broke on a pitch before that they didn't want to go get another piece of wood you've got a pizza panel almost looks exactly like a pizza panel you're making me hungry take a lot to do that they're going to take a look at this bat now they see something on the inside of this bat how about that that's a stream of cork running right up and down Chris Sabo's bat they're going to go in and get him from the ballgame or that could well let's see. That's bored out more about that there's a board in the middle of that. How about that. They will what happens here at Montague will send that piece of bat back into the umpires room that will be sent to the league office. So Chris Sabo peering out at Montague you know what happened though that Chris Sabo used a different bat the pitch before he was up there he was jammed on that and with a foul ball he broke his bat so he looked into the dugout and the bad boy brought out a substitute bat the bat that he brought out was a cork bat whether Chris Sabo meant to use that in a ballgame or not we don't know that it could be perhaps that he's a victim of circumstance that he's got a cork bat that they goof around with in batting practice and that has happened in the past and he gets caught using it in a ballgame and see an explode on him that's about a hitter's worst nightmare if you know you're cheating and then you know you got caught again he did break his bat and I tell you one thing Chris you would figure if the bat was deliberately corked and he knew it was corked and he thought it was broken the time before he would even take a chance he'd get rid of it rather than see it splinter open I can't see him intentionally going out there using a cork bat but she after the bad boy brought that one out there look at Montague was out in the infield now picking up pieces of cork Tom Hallian gobbling some up all those wine bottles one word vintage was Wally Bell will take the rest of it here's another look watch this ball just look at the little pieces of cork coming out of that bat that is a classic what cork to Montague has taken that piece of bat in and brought it to the umpires room Sable will collect his gear and he has been ejected from the ballgame the way he looked at somebody at the benches I use your bat trouble wouldn't be so bad but they have his name in