{"id":386,"date":"2010-06-05T11:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=386"},"modified":"2010-06-05T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T20:09:16","slug":"what-an-asshole-joe-west-is-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/386","title":{"rendered":"What An Asshole: Joe West is at it again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blue_cowboy_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-387 alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"blue_cowboy_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blue_cowboy_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When will that asshole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboyjoewest.com\/\">Joe West<\/a> be stopped?\u00a0 On Friday night, West added to his already long rap sheet of abuse of power with his ejection of <a href=\"http:\/\/scores.espn.go.com\/mlb\/recap?gameId=300604120\">the Nationals\u2019 Ian Desmond<\/a> in the bottom of the 7<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 After tagging from 2<sup>nd<\/sup> to 3<sup>rd<\/sup> on a fly ball to the center, Desmond over slid the bag with a pop-up slide but was called safe by third base umpire Paul Schrieber.\u00a0 After Dusty Baker complained, the umpires lead by crew chief Joe West, gathered to discuss the play and ultimately ruled that <a href=\"sports.espn.go.com\/mlb\/players\/profile\">Desmond<\/a> was in fact out.\u00a0 Frustrated with the ruling, Desmond dropped his helmet to the ground and was immediately ejected by West.\u00a0 Much like when he <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/chicago\/mlb\/news\/story?id=5222715\">tossed Mark Buehrle and Ozzie Guillen<\/a> on May 26<sup>th<\/sup>, the ejection was unprompted and absolutely preposterous.\u00a0 Maybe it wouldn\u2019t anger me and the rest of baseball so much if West didn\u2019t immediately waddle off after the ejections, showing no desire to explain himself and avoiding confrontation at all costs like a complete coward.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboyjoewest.com\/\">What a country-music-singin\u2019 asshole<\/a>. It\u2019s absurd that we are so concerned about the accuracy of umpires\u2019 calls when we have fat assholes like Joe West sucking the life out of professional baseball games.\u00a0 Despite it\u2019s significance to the game, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.prorumors.com\/2010\/06\/rumors\/video-armando-galarrag-throws-21st-perfect-game-in-major-league-baseball-history\/\">Jim Joyce\u2019s screw up<\/a> was part of umpiring and part of the game.\u00a0 Joe West\u2019s screw up(s) is just the product of him being a genuine, egocentric asshole.\u00a0 Major League Baseball needs to step in and put a stop to Joe West before somebody decks him on the field- <em>seriously<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Then again, I guess it\u2019s hard to can somebody when they are already only being paid in Cracker Barrel gift certificates.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will that asshole Joe West be stopped?\u00a0 On Friday night, West added to his already long rap sheet of abuse of power with his ejection of the Nationals\u2019 Ian Desmond in the bottom of the 7th.\u00a0 After tagging from 2nd to 3rd on a fly ball to the center, Desmond over slid the bag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,16,11,13,14],"tags":[469,153,458,185,3456,468,265,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}