Joe West Suspended For...

[m0nkey]

Answering a question.  Forget what you think of him as an umpire, the fact that he got suspended because someone asked him who the biggest complainer he ever dealt with and he responded with Adrian Beltre.  Quite ridiculous.

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Joe West, who just umpired his 5,000th career game, felt the brunt of this dichotomy on Tuesday with MLB handing out a three game suspension for his comments about Rangers third basemen Adrian Beltre in a USA today article published June 20. West was asked who the ‘biggest complainer’ was in his experience behind the plate, and the 64-year-old had no qualms about calling out the newest member of the 3,000 hit club.

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/joe-west-suspended-three-games-calling-adrian-beltre-mlbs-biggest-complainer-025247944.html

[Chuck]

He sucks.

Karma.

[arch stanton]

If it's in the rules it's in the rules. That's why we don't see many articles with umpire quotes

[Chuck]

Little Monkey man is ALWAYS trying to work an angle against the grain. 

Your Bryce Harper postcard is in the mail little buddy. 

[Second Base]

Of all the stupid crap Joe West does, you choose to suspend him over telling the truth? 

[Angel Oracle]

Don't worry, the Country Bumpkin will record an album while on suspension.    Although even Elias Samson sounds better.

[m0nkey]

46 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Little Monkey man is ALWAYS trying to work an angle against the grain. 

Your Bryce Harper postcard is in the mail little buddy. 

How is it going against the grain? I pretty clearly said "forget about what you think of him as an umpire". 

Thanks for the postcard though, little chuckmeister

[California Cajun]

I wonder how he would have behaved during the Pujols and Scioscia ejections tonight if he was at home plate and a AAA umpire at first rang Albert up.

West Is under the mistaken impression that fans come to watch him perform.  I'll be glad when he hangs it up.

 

[tdawg87]

Why hasn't Joe West choked on his own neckfat yet?

[Lou]

6 hours ago, m0nkey said:

Answering a question.  Forget what you think of him as an umpire, the fact that he got suspended because someone asked him who the biggest complainer he ever dealt with and he responded with Adrian Beltre.  Quite ridiculous

do you know better than West does as to which guy West thinks is the biggest complainer?

[m0nkey]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

do you know better than West does as to which guy West thinks is the biggest complainer?

I didn't say I did 

[Lou]

24 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

I didn't say I did 

then what was quite ridiculous?

[Blarg]

8 hours ago, arch stanton said:

If it's in the rules it's in the rules. That's why we don't see many articles with umpire quotes

I asked a MLB umpire (won't give up his name since he answered off the record) a question about which player he disliked the most and he responded Pujols. His reason was most players will argue a call because they think they were somehow shortchanged on a strike zone or felt they beat a throw.

In Pujols case he argued being thrown out at second in a spring training game. Got in his face and told him he blew the call, that he was never tagged. The umpire was sure he was out by a mile but has the integrity to check the game tape after it was all over. 

On further review, as they might say, Pujols was out by a mile and the tag was hard enough that even Pujols post anesthesia knee would have felt it. 

Since then he has little respect for Albert, that he would be such an arrogant ass in a Spring Training game over an out he knew was both an easy and good call. 

 

[Blarg]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

then what was quite ridiculous?

I think he was referring to the suspension. Which is quite ridiculous but also funny as well. I wonder if the official paperwork said, You're outta here, hit the showers!

[arch stanton]

8 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I asked a MLB umpire (won't give up his name since he answered off the record) a question about which player he disliked the most and he responded Pujols. His reason was most players will argue a call because they think they were somehow shortchanged on a strike zone or felt they beat a throw.

In Pujols case he argued being thrown out at second in a spring training game. Got in his face and told him he blew the call, that he was never tagged. The umpire was sure he was out by a mile but has the integrity to check the game tape after it was all over. 

On further review, as they might say, Pujols was out by a mile and the tag was hard enough that even Pujols post anesthesia knee would have felt it. 

Since then he has little respect for Albert, that he would be such an arrogant ass in a Spring Training game over an out he knew was both an easy and good call. 

 

And I assume he answered off the record because it's a violation of their agreement to go on the record about interactions with players on the field?

[m0nkey]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

then what was quite ridiculous?

That he got suspended for answering a question for an article about him

[Blarg]

36 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

And I assume he answered off the record because it's a violation of their agreement to go on the record about interactions with players on the field?

We had several "off the record" conversations about a lot of behind the scenes in umpiring that certainly would upset the union and MLB. 

[Junkballer]

Active umpires have no business responding to questions about players.  They need to be like children at the dinner table, beaten regularly.