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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by DG
You stated your position on the issue and then the vote was 5-4 against your position. Close call, judgement rules, as it does on the field. The only thing I think you did wrong was resigning from the board, which leaves you out of future position discussions and votes. No way to make a difference if you don't have a vote. What if every member of Congress resigned the first time the vote did not go with the position they argued for?
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I appreciate your opinion. Several others echoed that advice. But when I taught logic, we'd call your final question a "false analogy." Being a member of a baseball Board of Directors is not even remotely similar to being an elected US congressman.
I've been on that Board for nearly 30 years. I've lost countless votes. I never resigned.
I've won more than I lost. Obviously, in my mind, this vote was crucial to determining whether I could work with those umpires.
We announced as a Board there would be no exceptions. Then, at our first opportunity, we granted an exception.
Sorry, that's just not my cup of tea.
Thanks for taking time to post an answer to my question.
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If, in your mind, this vote was crucial to determine whether you could work with those umpires, then you did not need to ask the opinion of others. Your mind was set on a path. Why was this situation different than the others on which you were outvoted over the past 30 years?