Let’s Check In With Umpire Joe West About Wikileaks And Russia – Deadspin

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Umpire Joe West will take the field for his 5,000th game tonight, and Jeff Passan has a profile of him over on Yahoo Sports to commemorate the occasion. There are quite a few interesting tidbitshe golfs with Hawk Harrelson! He doesnt seem to care even in the slightest about how much people hate him!and theres also this:

When we put in replay, I thought there would be no arguments, West said. The first year we put in replay, ejections went up 20 percent. Baseball is a funny game. Its typically American. If you dont succeed its someone elses fault. And the first person you want to look at is the official. Just look at our last election. When Hillary lost, its someone elses fault. The Russians. Wikileaks. Its the fact you couldnt stand up and say I lost. Nobody in todays society wants to say I wasnt good enough. Baseball is a game of failures. The last hitter who hit .400 is dead and gone. There isnt going to be another of those. For anybody to think this is a perfect game, theyre kidding themselves. Lets be honest: How do you hit a round ball with a cylindrical bat square.

Lets be honest: Sing us a song about it.

[Yahoo Sports]

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