Umpire Joe West Speaks The Truth

"Before Wednesday night's game, West called the AL East rivals "embarrassing" and "a disgrace to baseball" for slowing the pace of their games to a crawl, according to the Bergen (N.J.) Record.
The teams' season opener on Sunday took 3:46 to play. Tuesday night's game went 3:48, while Wednesday night's contest, which went 10 innings, was finished in a relatively brisk 3:21.
"They're the two clubs that don't try to pick up the pace," said West, the chief of the umpiring crew working the three-game series, according to the report. "They're two of the best teams in baseball. Why are they playing the slowest? "It's pathetic and embarrassing. They take too long to play," he said, according to the report.
During Tuesday night's game, home plate umpire Angel Hernandez denied a number of requested timeouts in the batter's box.
West did not allow Hernandez to comment, according to the report.
"All of baseball looks to these two clubs to pick up the pace," West said, according to the report. "[Hernandez] did everything he could. The players aren't working with us.""
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It seems like major league baseball has become quite boring because the players think that every at bat and every pitch is the same as the pitch of the ninth inning with two outs of the 7th game of the World Series.
The games get boring, especially if you are working watching on TV. Channel surfing between pitches is an art form. If you play it right, you can watch an entire episode of Family Guy and not miss anything in one inning, if you watch in between the pitches. If you wanted to watch an entire episode of Grey's Anatomy, then 2 innings.
A good baseball game shouldn't last more than 2 1/2 hours, any longer and it gets boring any shorter, then you are not getting your money's worth.
Hopefully West will not get punished for speaking his mind. If so, then his punishment should be to watch the next Yankee-Red Sox game in slow motion with Bud Selig. What can be worse?