Seriously… Is Joe West trying to piss me off?
According to this Dead Spin item, via Gordon Edes, after Joe West made himself the story in a recent White Sox-Indians game, his publicist sent out a press release announcing that he would be umpiring in Boston this weekend. This, not surprisingly, is unfuckingheard of in baseball “for security reasons.” I would like to add MLB doesn’t announce who’s umpiring which series because it shouldn’t fucking matter. The thinking here is that Joe West, not satisfied with being the biggest umpire in MLB (physically speaking), also needs to be the biggest asshole in the league. Or that he wants to promote his shitty country music career by behaving like an asshole. Somebody needs to stop this guy.
