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…)

After 16 innings, they got one.  The problem was, he played for the other team and the BlueClaws lost.  Fortunately for the fans who’d fallen asleep during the glacially paced tragedy, Lakewood was scheduled to play a double-header!  So even though his warm-ups had begun more than an entire baseball game ago, Phillies first round draft pick Jesse Biddle was getting the ball, and all 11 people left watching were aching to see what he’d do with it.

Whatever it was, he could take his time.  Anybody willing to sit through 16 innings of minor league baseball clearly wasn’t in a hurry to go anywhere. (more…)