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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I think you are wrong.

We just think they should have known what was going to happen. There is all this mean spirited talk of "scab" this, and "scab" that, and it gets old really fast. These games were going to get umpired one way or the other, and despite all the complaining by the coaches and players, they really wouldn't care if their grandma umpired the games, as long as they got to play. If this were not the case, the players, managers, coaches, vendors, announcers, and all team personnel would be on the line with the AMLU guys. But they aren't, which means they are actually siding with management, to even be putting up with the obviously inferior umpiring.

It isn't that we don't want the pro umps back. Of course we do. We all think that they are grossly underpaid. They deserve much more in the way of salary, benefits, per diem, insurance and everything else it takes to make a good living. But running around hollering "scab" at the replacements isn't going to help solve a damn thing. Management does not seem to be in any hurry to make a move to solve the problem, so we will all just have to wait and see how the whole thing plays out. In the meantime, we should resist the urge, as difficult as that is, to lash out at each other over this issue.

I think you misunderstand the term Scab. The AMLU guys aren't using that term because they are surprised that guys are crossing to work, they expected that. They aren't even "lashing out" in anger. They (and others) use the term because it is the correct term. Is it mean to call a crackhead a crackhead? His name is pookie, but his title is crackhead because that is what he does. The same is true here. His name may be Yeast, but his title is Scab, because that is what he chooses to do.