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Originally posted by Carl Childress
2. The secret ballot turned out to be meaningless. During the discussion, one Board member argued for the exemption. Four members spoke vehemently against it. In the end four voted against it.
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YoHo! This, in my profession, is what we call strong circumstantial evidence; or, to quote H.D. Thoreau: "a fish in the milk".
I'm inferring:
A) "The Fix" was in before the meeting started;
B) Carl, you know EXACTLY why the exemption was granted, and it has
nada to do with Hector's truthful, but irrelevent, excuse [more likely H3's "big dog politics"];
C) Your resignation [and considering same to be a matter of ethics] has a lot more to do with A & B than the actual granting of an exemption to Hector.
Normally, I'd agree w/ others that a resignation "on principle" because you lost a vote over the Board doing something stupid is a bit of an overreaction. In this case, maybe not. In any case, H3 is, as usual on matters of Umpire Assn politics, dead-on: it was probably smart, at minimum.