Yesterday, while dining in the team’s lunch room, Ex-Phillies GM Ed Wade approached recently-demoted pitcher Shawn Chacon as he was eating. (Mistake #1) Wade informed Shawn that he and manager Cecil Cooper would like to have a word with him in his office. This is where it gets good. I’ll let Shawn, via the Houston Chronicle, take it from here,

“I sat down to eat and Ed Wade came to me and very sternly said, ‘you need to come with me to the office.’ 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.”

It deteriorated quickly afterward, according to Chacon.

“He started yelling and cussing,” Chacon said of Wade. “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 and stuff and was like, ‘You need to fucking look in the mirror.’ 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 because at that point I wanted to beat his ass. Words were exchanged.”

Unfortunately, other Astro players intervened and broke up the choke session. Shawn has since been “suspended indefinitely.”

I have a newfound respect for every player on the Phillies during Wade’s eight-year tenure. It must’ve taken an incredible amount of restraint for that not to have happened here.

Astros suspend Chacon after altercation with GM Wade | Houston Chronicle

In the bottom of the first inning of today’s Phils/’Stros game, Carlos Lee swung at a 2-2 offering from Cole Hamels and his follow-through struck homeplate ump Jerry Crawford square in the domepiece. Crawford immediately left the game and was ambulanced over to Methodist Hospital in Houston for a CAT scan.

His injuries were minor, and the gutsy Crawford won’t let this mishap keep him from his umpiring duties for long.

“I’m going to work tomorrow night in Cleveland,” Crawford said. “I’m OK to fly. I saw a neurosurgeon at the Methodist Hospital here, and he gave me a clean bill of health.”

I’m assuming Jerry’s toughness can be directly attributed to his Philadelphia roots. Either that, or the metal umpire mask he wears.

Video of the incident can be found, as the kids say, after the jump…

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