For the first time in your career Joe, we missed you on the field. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-US PRESSWIRE

This may be the only time in the entire pantheon of baseball that people watching the game actually missed that fat turd Joe West.  He missed today’s game between the Phillies and Nationals because of what I can only assume was related either to him being overweight or into country music.  There are a lot of times when we all bitch and moan about the umpiring, but know that in actuality, they got it right and we are just clinging to their incompetence to prevent a nervous breakdown.  Tonight was not one of those nights.  Joe West missed the game rendering the crew down an umpire.  There was no third base umpire and the Phillies were absolutely shafted on two plays preventing them from scoring an insurance run late in the game. (more…)