June 25, 2008
Chacon Wades into a Fight
The Astros suspended Shawn Chacon indefinitely. He and Ed Wade got into an argument and Shawn attacked:
According Chacon, he was in the lunch room after batting practice when Cooper asked him to join him in his office.
"And I said, 'what do you want to speak to me about?'" Chacon said. "He said, 'we just want to talk to you.' I said, 'anything you can say you can say to me right here. I don't want to go to the office. He looked at me and I said there's nothing for me to say to you guys.' And I don't think whatever they had to say to me they were going to make me happy. I didn't want to get in a closed-room conversation. I just wanted to be left alone.
"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 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 (expletive) 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 (butt). Words were exchanged."
Players quickly intervened to separate Wade and Chacon, who remembers being pulled away by backup outfielder Reggie Abercrombie.
Shawn was upset about being removed from the rotation, and the meeting was to discuss that. I highly doubt we'll see Shawn in an Astros uniform again. I wonder if Wade will press charges?
I'd bet he may be done for good. What GM will want to sign a guy pulling this nonsense a may go after the GM?
What an idiot. He should be done for good. What would happen if you did that to your boss?
Obviously this is also an indictment of Cooper and Wade as well, no? They both have to be done soon.
Based on comments from Roy Oswalt throughout the season, I somehow believe that Chacon's not the only Astro who wanted to shove Cooper or Wade to the floor.
Yep, this goes on Cooper and Wade to, which from what I hear should have been gone months ago. Bet their seats are getting mighty hot now.
To echo others: obviously this is Chacon's side of the story, so he probably wasn't as calm and carefree as he makes it out, but it's still really poor management on Wade's part to get into a yelling match with Chacon out there in "public".
There's no excuse for Chacon laying hands on his GM, but if Chacon is telling the truth about Wade going into a screaming fit in public, Wade should be looking at a good dressing down from the ownership of the Astros, if not outright firing. A GM is supposed to be able to act like an adult in public.
Why, this is so serious that the Yankees may only give him a minor-league deal!