Umpire Joe West before taking the field today wearing white wrist band to protest escalating verbal attacks on MLB umpires! pic.twitter.com/a8TkW2JCip
— Major League Baseball Umpires Association (@MLBUA) August 19, 2017
As you might have heard, MLB umpires are wearing white wristbands to protest the “escalating verbal attacks” they are apparently being subjected to. You’d assume no one would give a damn about POS umpire Angel Hernandez getting torched by Ian Kinsler in the media, but true to form, the World Umpires Association thinks they’re more important than they really are:
#WUA issued the following statement in response to escalating verbal attacks: pic.twitter.com/wGLIoLOUq0
— Major League Baseball Umpires Association (@MLBUA) August 19, 2017
But while umps are salty grumps who have issues calling balls and strikes, they don’t seem to be too bad off the field. Well… Joe West seems okay — he was nice enough to take a pic with a Blue Jays fan before buying his protest whites:
via cute-hamster/Reddit
And it looks like he’ll even sign autographs if you ask nicely:
Have never ever seen an umpire sign autographs between innings. Only Country Joe West. @Cubs @MLB @MLBaseballUmps pic.twitter.com/SBx4tQvJBZ
— Billy Krumb (@ClubhouseCancer) August 20, 2017
Yes, you saw that right. Real people out there want Cowboy Joe’s signature:
https://twitter.com/kg_holler/status/899374050253950977
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