well, THERE's a new one

[Welpe]

I asked about his handling this situation, not his entire body of work.

[Kevin Finnerty]

It's not about this call, okay? Where do you guys get this stuff? Where in anything I wrote did you get that I was blasting him for this specific call, and not his general game?

Here are my exact words:

Nothing specific, just Joe West's a disgrace to umpiring. They got that right.

AND,

I love the game and I love umpiring and I respect both immensely. So how could I possibly approve of Joe West and the manner in which he defames both the game and the umpiring profession?

If he is not a disgrace to umpiring, I guess I am missing something. Try to list some of the ways that he is not a disgrace to umpiring, rather than condemn me for bringing it up, or assume I am biased against the guy personally, which I am not. As a person, I both liked and spent time with the guy in past years. But this is now, and he is now a disgrace to umpiring. There are literally hundreds of qualified umpires dreaming of a shot at a spot he is filling in a way that is a colossal embarrassment to the profession.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

It's not about this call, okay?

You just saw the chance to take a shot at him then. Got it.

[txump81]

Wow! This thread is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY off topic from where it started.