{"id":854961,"date":"2026-09-21T02:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T02:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:42:40","slug":"retiring-umpire-laz-diaz-bemoans-nasty-environment-around-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/854961\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring umpire Laz Diaz bemoans \u2018nasty\u2019 environment around MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laz Diaz, an MLB umpire since 1995, is retiring after the season and it\u2019s clear he will miss the friends he has made in baseball but not baseball itself.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the game he used to know, he told USA Today in an interview for an article that appeared Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just changed so much,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much more technical stuff. It\u2019s kind of restricted us. I mean, everything is black and white now. You can\u2019t manage the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laz Diaz, an MLB umpire since 1995, is retiring after the season and it\u2019s clear he will miss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[361057,363,99],"class_list":["post-854961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-laz-diaz","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}