No More Lima Time, Pitcher Dies At 37...

One of the true characters of baseball of the last decade, former All-Star right-hander Jose Lima died Sunday morning at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 37.

The cause of death was ruled a heart attack, according to his wife, Dorca Astacio.

"Jose was complaining while sleeping and I just thought he was having a nightmare," Astacio told ESPNdeportes.com. "I called the paramedics, but they couldn't help him."

Lima was 89-102 in 13 seasons with the Tigers, Astros, Royals, Dodgers and Mets. He was selected to the All-Star Game with Houston in 1999, when he won a career-high 21 games.

Here's one of Lima's lighter moments with the Golden Baseball League's Long Beach Armada, where his singing talents were once again on display...
((HT: LongBeachArmada))

Jose Offerman "Strikes" Again

Former Major League Baseball player Jose Offerman might want to consider anger management classes. In 2007 he was shown on video going after a two players in a Minor League Game with a bat in an Atlantic Leauge Game. By the way...though charged with second degree assault in that episode, he never served time.

Now comes Saturday night in the Dominican League. Offerman, the manager of the Licey Tigers apparently didn't like a call at first base in Saturday's game. He became sufficiently mad enough that not only did he take a swing at the umpire, Daniel Rayburn, he dropped him...although if you watch the video...we aren't sure if he connected because it looks like Rayburn took a dive like a hockey player.

It isn't know whether or not Offerman will be charged, it depends a bit on whether Rayburn wants to press charges or if there actually was any contact.

((Jose Offerman in less angry days//Courtesy: baseball-almanac.com))

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PM UPDATE: The umpiring crew, from the United States, has left the country and resigned from their posts in the Dominican League, according to Enrique Rojas of ESPNDeportes.

Threats were made, according to a source, to the umps as they left the field.

"It's unheard of that passion in sports reaches levels on intolerance and violence in professional sports as exhibited by a successful athlete, who many Dominicans admire and love," said Leonardo Matos-Berrido, president of the Dominican League, who was present at Saturday's game and saw the incident. "The Dominican League, its associates and executives offer our national fans and all the Dominican people, who strongly support baseball, our excuses for this regrettable event."

Still no word on charges from Rayburn...