[討論] Joe West 抓狂

[mrkey (距離太遠 思念太近)]

Joe West 是這三場的 Chief umpire,

昨天打完後, 對於這兩隊球賽速度慢得要死 受不了了

從 Yankee Lo-Hud 轉來的:

The pace of play in Yankees-Red Sox games is, to put it nicely, typically
slow. Three-plus hour games are the norm in the rivalry and most games are
usually closer to four. Everyone knows it and, most of the time, everyone
jokes about it – over the past three days, I heard quips or comments on the
pace of play from players, coaches, fans, broadcasters and writers. Scan
through Twitter and you’ll see plenty of examples.

Umpire Joe West, who is one of MLB’s crew chiefs, apparently doesn’t think
there’s anything funny about it at all. West ripped the Yankees and Red Sox
in a story in the Bergen Record today, calling it “embarrassing, a disgrace
to baseball.” He also called the Yanks and Sox, “pathetic and embarrassing.
They take too long to play.”

The first two games of this series took 3 hours, 46 minutes and 3 hours, 48
minutes, respectively, and West made his comments before last night’s game,
which was actually something of an anomaly: The teams only needed 3 hours, 21
minutes to play 10 innings. Not surprisingly, the Yankees and Red Sox hold
the record for longest nine-inning game ever, having taken 4 hours, 45
minutes to play back on Aug. 18, 2006.

...

Unfortunately, that message gets lost when you have an umpire using words
like “disgrace” and “pathetic” about the teams he’s supposed to be
officiating. West has been around a long time, but that doesn’t mean he can
(or should) use inflammatory language like that; for lack of a better reason,
name-calling is never nice. Even more, it doesn’t exactly help the notion if
impartiality.

Joe Girardi was asked yesterday if he felt MLB had stressed pace of play this
year, and he shrugged. “That issue is made every spring training … so it’s
not anything new. Are they trying to enforce it a little more? Right now it
appears [they are]. The jury will be out on that at the end of the year.”

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→ charlie01:執法裁判也不應該用"disgrace"這類詞彙
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→ ypw:這是為了變形蟲好球帶做的自我解套嗎