Joe West is regularly one of my least favorite umpires. He’s like that teacher you had in school who is ridiculously strict about everything you do, but cannot do those same things himself.
West complains about long game times, and then calls the Sox-Yankees game “pathetic and embarrassing,” going on to say that they were “a disgrace to baseball.”
Laugh with me.
Red Sox and Yankees are a disgrace to baseball? OK. So the two best teams in the league are what’s disgracing it?
What many people don’t know is that West is a major contributor in these admittedly lengthy games. He made CC Sabathia change shoes in the second inning because they weren’t the Yankee blue, instead matching the gray of his uniform.
Similarly, Marcus Tham ...
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Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees: Hardly Pathetic and Embarassing
Posted: 11th April 2010 by Akash A in MLBComments Off on Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees: Hardly Pathetic and Embarassing