Yes, the Boss was pretty irate over the fact that his team, the New York Yankees, had to play with all the bugs buzzing in the Indians Game Two win. The Boss — not Bruce Springsteen — apparently thought the game should have been delayed.

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner told the Bergen Record that Bruce Froemming, the umpire crew chief, was full of a nasty substance, then added: "He won't umpire our games anymore." Not that he makes that decision.

Steinbrenner even called commissioner Bud Selig to complain. "[Selig] just said, 'That's in the umpires' hands,' " Steinbrenner told the Record. "But … it was terrible. It messed up the whole team, [Derek] Jeter, all of them."

To this day, nobody has explained why the bugs only bugged the Yankees and the Indians — and pitcher Fausto Carmona — were able to play through the disctaction.

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