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I can't believe this is even an issue, and, in all honesty it makes me sick that some of you are actually of the opinion that this umpire deserved to have a bat thrown at him merely because he is a replacement umpire. That's bull. Regardless of what your stance is on the MiLB issue, he's a fellow OFFICIAL, not just a blue, that got assaulted. Just because he chose to umpire a AAA game in the place of a striking umpire should have no consequence to any of us. As it was said in an earlier thread, someone has to umpire the game and someone will umpire the games. Just because they choose to do so, whether or not that decision is the popular, politically correct, or ethical one, does not give Young the privilege of throwing his bat at a replacement umpire, nor does it mean that a replacement umpire deserves to be assaulted in such a manner.
Am I saying that this situation could have been avoided if regular AAA umpires were working the game? That's possible. But it still does not give Young the right to throw the bat or for any of us to condone the action because of anyone's status as a scab. Just my .02.
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