Steve Chapman: Time for a change in baseball

One of baseball’s venerable axioms is that no one goes to a game to watch the umpires. Maybe not, but I for one will be happy to go to cheer the umpires.

At least I will do so for any composed of the same stuff as Joe West, who the other day brought down a stern judgment about the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox: “It’s pathetic and embarrassing. They take too long to play.”