{"id":7446,"date":"2014-04-24T11:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:21:52","slug":"joe-girardi-protesting-espn-dugout-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/04\/24\/joe-girardi-protesting-espn-dugout-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Girardi protesting ESPN dugout camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4859\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4859\" alt=\"Source: Scott Halleran\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/joegirardi.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/joegirardi.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/joegirardi-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Scott Halleran\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wednesday night New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected from his start against the Boston Red Sox for having a substance on his neck.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Yankees manager Joe Girardi, trainer Steve Donohue and pitching coach Larry Rothschild were seen having a private discussion in the tunnel. The ESPN dugout camera decided to turn around and see what the trio was talking about to which Girardi took exception swatting it away.<\/p>\n<p>Girardi and the Yankees are now protesting the use of the camera to MLB and ESPN.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p7CQ4ucJfBI\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat frustrated me is that the camera is meant for the dugout and Michael was already out of the game so I don\u2019t want it down in our tunnel,\u2019\u2019 Girardi said, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/04\/24\/peeved-joe-girardi-turns-the-camera-on-espn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Post<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a private area and it has been clearly stated that it is for the dugout, not for the tunnel and conversations that happen between players and coaches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think MLB is going to have a problem with ESPN going into the tunnel,&#8221; Girardi said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t break the camera. I just kept it from going into the tunnel. You guys are acting like I ripped it apart. The camera worked the rest of the game, didn\u2019t it? All I did was turn it so it was on the field or in the dugout. If I get fined for that I will have a problem with that because I didn\u2019t do anything to hurt the camera.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Girardi has support from Yankees manager Brian Cashman who said &#8220;That camera&#8217;s purpose is for the field and the dugout, not shooting up into the tunnel for private situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts on cameras on the field and off? Share them below in our comment section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda was ejected from his start against the Boston Red Sox for having a substance on his neck. Afterwards Yankees manager Joe Girardi, trainer Steve Donohue and pitching coach Larry Rothschild were seen having a private discussion in the tunnel. The ESPN dugout camera decided to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,485,501,38],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-joe-girardi","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}