Umps Joe West, Ed Rapuano, CB Bucknor and Todd Tichenor Rule

They wore light blue shirts all three games this weekend


I hope we see these umps again at Comerica Park next Month or September or even the playoffs


And if were cool in September or October, Rapuano and West wear the old style coats when the work the plate

Would have posted this earlier; but I was too pissed about Jones

Too bad CB Bucknor is the worst umpire in baseball.

Who says Bucknor is the worst?


Runge is the worst!


Doug Eddings Sucks, too

The players say Bucknor is the worst in every player vote done by SI since 2003.

Who came in second?

gs78 wrote:

Who came in second?

Let me see if I can find it. Most recently it would be like this (note: Froemming is now retired):

BEST
Tim McClelland.....29%
Jim Joyce.....10%
John Hirschbeck.....6%
Ed Rapuano.....6%
Ted Barrett.....6%
Laz Diaz.....3%
Randy Marsh.....3%
Ed Montague.....3%
Joe West,.....2%
Jerry Crawford.....2%

WORST
CB Bucknor.....21%
Bruce Froemming.....15%
Angel Hernandez.....12%
Joe West.....6%
Doug Eddings.....5%
Joe Brinkman.....4%
Chuck Meriwether.....3%
Larry Young.....3%
Greg Gibson,.....2%
Gary Darling.....2%

Larry Young and Joe Brinkman are also retired


Joe West made both lists;

gs78 wrote:

Larry Young and Joe Brinkman are also retired


Joe West made both lists;

You paid more attention than I did.

Making both lists seems reasonable - there were no choices and players just picked the names they thought of. West didn't get that many votes in either poll.

Joe West was in the first Naked Gun Movie


He was the umpire who told Neilsen you can't throw an Umpire out of a game

All the umps in the movie wore coats and dress shirts with the top button unbuttoned



They really need to dress like that again

I like that movie. My favorite part of the baseball scene is when there's like 15 announcers in the booth. It's funny because now that's not really a lie. Do we need that many announcers? Vin Scully doesn't have a partner.

I like when Neilsen sings the National Anthem


And when OJ rolls down the aisle in his wheelchair and flips over the rail, too


And when Reggie Jackson tries to kill the queen and Neilsen hits a fat woman with a tranquilizer dart and she falls from the upper deck on Reggie

They should make another Naked Gun Movie


Even the other two weren't that bad