Seldom is this space used for critiques of umpires, and never as an excuse for a team’s loss even if players believe it to be so.
But Joe West was at it again, though Jeff Banister didn’t make the media privy to what he said as he walked back to the dugout and then was given the heave by West in the second inning.
Doing it without the ejectee looking just seems like shooting someone in the back, doesn’t it?
That’s what baseball fans have come to expect from West, who has been around since the 1970s and who could retire in a few years with the most games called in MLB history.