Derek Dye, Intern, Ejected By Umpire For Playing Three Blind Mice

CBS Local Philadelphia ^ | 08/02/12 | Spike Eskin

[DFG]

Derek Dye is spending the summer before his senior year at the University of Illinois interning for the Daytona Cubs. If an internship is supposed to offer you real world experience, Dye’s experience on Wednesday night was proof.

Dye was being given the chance to run the organ music during Wednesday night’s game. There was a questionable call at first base. “Looked like our first baseman caught it, and then lost it on the transfer. So you figure the call would be out,” Dye told 94WIP’s Marc Farzetta.

So Dye thought he’d have a little fun. “I played “Three Blind Mice,” knew organ tone, no lyrics, just the organ,” he said. “And then, within about four or five seconds of the song playing, the home plate umpire looks up, yells as loud as he can, ‘you’re gone!’” The home plate umpire had tossed Dye from the game.

[CdMGuy]

I remember Gladys Gooding. As a Yankee fan, I never attended an Ebbetts Field game. However, growing up in the Bronx, I remember that Gladys, along with Ansel Sweet, used to play the organ in the main dining room of Mayer’s Parkway Restaurant on E. 233rd St. in the Bronx. Plus, I remember her from playing the organ in the former Madison Square Garden.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The organist should send that umpire a dozen roses for the publicity. Stadium management knows that anything that brings the crowd in is good for business, even a snarky organist.

He’ll probably get a raise and be told to come up with other tunes that get a rise out of the umpires.

[2001convSVT]

Yep, the organist if he plays his cards right is set for life!

[MrB]

Roses on the piano, tulips on the organ...