Posted by darkside on July 22, 2011 at 09:35:00:
Sox's Cooper hangs up on hosts after question about Viciedo
From the Tribune
Staff report
10:01 a.m. CDT, July 21, 2011
Don Cooper gets paid to do a sports-talk radio appearance each Thursday morning, but the Chicago White Sox pitching coach cut the session short this week, angrily hanging
up on the hosts after being asked whether Dayan Viciedo could help the team's struggling offense.
"I have no clue about that. I'm a coach," Cooper fumed during his session on "The Mully & Hanley Show" on WSCR-AM 670. "Do I feel like something (needs to be done)? Yeah,
we have to score some runs. That's what's got to be done. And if we do, we have a chance to win. And if we don't, we won't.
"Nice try, asking me to bring up (bleeping) Viciedo. I'm not in charge of making moves, I'm in charge of coaching."
When host Brian Hanley told Cooper that he wasn't trying to put him on the spot, Cooper hung up.
Earlier, Cooper had taken issue with a statement about pitcher Phil Humber having had two bad outings recently, correcting it to "one bad outing and one bad inning (Sunday
at Detroit) ... now your question, please."