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Joe West, an ump you love to hate, to set MLB umpiring record with 5,376th game
Joe West, who has been in the middle of his share of controversy since 1976, will break the record set by Bill Klem set from 1905-41 with Tuesday s Cardinals-White Sox game.
By PAUL SULLIVANChicago Tribune
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Umpire Joe West, left, says he thanked David Ortiz during the slugger’s rookie season for replacing him as the “ugliest man in the game.” In his final game with West behind the plate, Ortiz congratulated West on once again becoming the “ugliest man” in baseball. West is scheduled to umpire his 5,376th game Tuesday.
Joe West, an ump you love to hate, to set MLB umpiring record with 5,376th game
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From left to right, Reps. Matt Blumenthal and Steve Stafstrom watch the votes tallied for the risk-warrant update.
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday for legislation that would expand Connecticut’s “risk warrant” or “red flag” law, a first-in-the-nation statute that became a model for seizing firearms from at-risk individuals before violence occurs.
A pacesetting concept when adopted in 1999 in response to a mass killing at the Connecticut Lottery, the new legislation borrows from versions crafted in other states in the intervening decades.
The bill passed 93-55 on party lines, carried by 91 Democrats and two Republicans and opposed by 51 Republicans and four Democrats. It now goes to the Senate.