Edwin Rodriguez takes another shot at the Nationals

(Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez took a final cheap shot at the Nationals in his pregame comments Friday night. Photo via Newscom.)

Marlins first baseman Gaby Sanchez was a late scratch before Friday night's Nationals-Marlins game, opting to drop his appeal of his own three-game suspension on a day when Nyjer Morgan had a hearing with MLB to appeal his pending 15-game suspension. Morgan later started in center field.

Before the game, Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez took one last cheap shot at the Nationals in explaining Sanchez's decision to do his time now in the wake of The Great Nyjer-Marlins Brawl of 2010:

"I'd rather see him sitting down against Washington than against Philadelphia. His offense will be more needed against Philadelphia."
(Edwin Rodriguez, via MLB.com, 9/10/2010)

What a prick. And for that, we humbly ask Joe Bisenius and/or Collin Balester to uncork a 98 MPH heater into the Marlins dugout in the general direction of Rodriguez sometime this weekend. Thank you.

Even if he's probably right.

(Hopefully some intrepid reporter or one of the credentialed bloggers asks Jim Riggleman to comment on Rodriguez's statement. Thank you.)

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Comments

[Gary Saunders]

A prick? Yes. But he speaks the truth. Forget about all that --- who's the babe???

[The Nationals Enquirer]

Yeah, he probably speaks the truth, but it's a big "F You" to the Nationals and not the kind of thing you'd expect to hear at this point -- this is where both teams are supposed to be smoothing things over, you know? Saying the right things. Meanwhile, Riggleman went out of his way in his postgame interview to praise the Marlins up and down. Wish one of the beat reporters or bloggers or someone had asked him to comment on Rodriguez's statment...