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Originally posted by GarthB
2. You are making terrible, nay, fatal, assumptions about Tee's familiarity with MLB umpiring and umpires. Many of us know or are acquainted with one or two MLB umps. Tee is on a personal friendship basis and has worked with several, and I mean SEVERAL, MLB umpires. His contacts right up to and including the MLB office have proven impeccable in the past. If anyone on this board "understands" and communicates with professional umpires about what "it takes to umpire at that level", it is Tee.
[Edited by GarthB on Mar 28th, 2005 at 01:26 PM]
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Then I and T.C. have much in common.
I'm not trying to make a federal case out of this. I'm just relaying some thoughts shared by some MLB Umps who aren't exactly happy about this.
Say what you want about the CBA's between MLB and its umpires, I personally have zero respect for the folks running the game, and this includes people like Sandy Alderson. It's not just related to umpiring, either.