Astros suspend pitcher Shawn Chacon indefinitely

 

HOUSTON (AP)?Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended indefinitely by the team Wednesday for insubordination after reportedly grabbing general manager Ed Wade by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

 

Chacon, upset after getting demoted to the bullpen over the weekend, told the Houston Chronicle this problem began when Wade saw him in the dining room before the game against Texas. Wade wanted to meet with Chacon in manager Cecil Cooper?s office, the pitcher said.

 

?I sat down to eat and Ed Wade came to me and very sternly said, ?You need to come with me to the office,?? Chacon said. ?I said, ?For what?? I said, ?I don?t want to go to the office with you and Cooper.? And I said, ?You can tell me whatever you got to tell me right here.? He?s like, ?Oh, you want me to tell you right here?? And I said, ?Yeah.? I?m not yelling. I?m calm.?

 

Chacon said things went downhill from there.

 

?He started yelling and cussing,? Chacon said of Wade, according to a story on the Chronicle?s Web site. ?I?m sitting there and I said to him very calmly, ?Ed, you need to stop yelling at me. Then I stood up and said, ?You better stop yelling at me.? I stood up. He continued and was basically yelling.?

 

Chacon said that after Wade told him he needed to ?look in the mirror,? it got worse.

 

?So at that point I lost my cool and I grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground. I jumped on top of him,? he said. ?Words were exchanged.?

 

Chacon said players quickly came and separated the two. He recalled outfielder Reggie Abercrombie pulling him away from Wade.

 

Wade announced the move, but would not provide any other details. Chacon has been upset since being bumped from the rotation and moved into the bullpen on Sunday.

 

?He is suspended pending final resolution of whatever move we end up making with him,? Wade said.

 

Chacon is 2-3 with a 5.04 ERA in 15 starts for Houston this year. The right-hander set a major league record with nine straight no-decisions to start the season.

 

When asked if Chacon was disciplined because he physically accosted Wade, the GM said: ?I?m not getting into any details of anything beyond what I just said. It is an internal matter.?

 

Astros slugger Lance Berkman, who said he did not see the incident, was one of the few players who agreed to talk about it.

 

?Obviously it?s something that nobody in here is thrilled that it happened,? he said. ?But this is a sport of high emotion and sometimes things happen that organizations wish wouldn?t and that?s why there?s vehicles like suspending the players to deal with those situations.?

 

Wade did confirm that Chacon?s agent called and requested a trade earlier this week but said ?that has nothing to do with the events of today.?

 

Chacon is concerned that he might not pitch in the majors again.

 

?Maybe it shouldn?t have happened,? Chacon said. ?But when you do those things and you?re yelling at somebody and you?re cussing you better know what type of person you?re dealing with. If there?s any regret, I just wish they had just let me alone. I wish they had left me alone,? he told the Chronicle.

 

Chacon signed a $2 million, one-year contract with Houston in February after spending 2007 with Pittsburgh. He split time as a starter and a reliever there and was 5-4 with a 3.94 ERA and one save in 64 appearances with the Pirates.

 

When asked if he was concerned about his personality or character when Chacon was signed, Wade opted to discuss his play instead.

 

?I?d hoped he pitched better for us,? Wade said. ?That?s the bottom line. We took him out of the rotation on Sunday basically on merit. He?d had 10 starts since late April, and the last three starts, four starts weren?t very good. So we hoped that he would help us in the bullpen, and unfortunately we?re at a point right now when we think it?s in our best interest to move forward.?

 

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:lol

 

What a moron. Way to ruin your baseball career!

 

Good to see Reggie stepping in like the badass that he is. :mischief

HOUSTON (AP)?Astros pitcher Shawn Chacon was suspended indefinitely by the team Wednesday for insubordination after reportedly grabbing general manager Ed Wade by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

 

He might not pitch again, but at least he got to live out the american dream of grabbing your boss by the neck and throwing him to the ground.

haha. I'd love to have pile-driven my old boss.

Reggie Abercrombie sighting, lol. I'm pretty sure he'll pitch again.

this guy is an idiot...

 

what an upsetting story, I hate hearing about this garbage...which is why I hate Carlos Zambrano so much...its such a cliche but theres no I in team pal!

 

...yet, somehow there is an I in blind...figure that one out!

if what chacon says is true, sounds like wade was pretty disrespectful. you don't yell at a grown ass man in front of other people and expect not to get a beat-down for it.

If someone is screaming and cursing at you I don't have a problem if you kick his ass. I wouldn't recommend it but have no problem with it if you do it.

If someone is screaming and cursing at you I don't have a problem if you kick his ass. I wouldn't recommend it but have no problem with it if you do it.

If the boss asks, and according to Chacon, it was asked, to come with him to the office so he can speak with you-you know what-you get up and go with him. Sounds like Wade was asking him to come with him to discuss his demotion in private. Chacon disrespects his boss and now is telling him what to do, where to speak with him and how. Probably because he thinks since he makes a lot of money and is the young stud, he does not have to listen to his boss. Wade is not a man of the cloth, as a man involved in sports, he has an ego and he was openly challenged-the difference is he starts yelling-so Chacon can do the same if he wishes-like a manager screaming and cursing with the umpire. You think the ump should grab the manager and throw him down? Instead his response is violent, because that is the way to be a "man". He could have killed him, but the act would be the same-would you defend it. "It's ok to kill the guy, he was yelling at me, and that is not allowed". If Wade went to strike him, sure, otherwise, get in his face-otherwise, maybe if Wade was the same age and just as big as Chacon, Chacon probably isn't as tough.

 

Look, I agree, just because someone is a boss and someone works for you, does not give the boss the right to be disrespectful. But to jump him, grab him by the throat and throw him to the ground, then get on top of a much older man is not something easily defended especially since Chacon seemed to instigate it.

I didn't consider the age difference. If the verbal abuser is much older then I do have the problem with the younger guy kicking his ass.

Chacon is related to Latrell Sprewell??? I did not know that!!!

They released him, and sportsline.com says the Player's Union is going to file a grievance. What a joke.