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Agreed...great post Tim.
I think the umpires just want to see improvements in this contract...they dont want to change the system in one swoop...but they just want to make sure things don't continue to stay the same (which is actually making it worse because of inflation). The first offer from minor league baseball pretty much was what the old offer was. That was rejected. Minor League Baseball can do better than that. If they offered a contract that actually was an improvment, it'd be interesting to see what would happen then. But if that is all minor league baseball is going to offer, then what choice to the guys have but to walk? It's been 10 years...they can't agree to make it 15. And if they did...it would make it even harder to do anythign 5 years down the line. This is the first time they will negotiate while being unionized. And really, it's not a normal union, it's more of just bringing all the umpires together, because 5 years ago...they were VERY disorganized from what I hear...and now they seem to all be on the same page.
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