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Originally Posted by socalblue1
As long as I can continue to annoy Windbag & SDS…….
The entire issue is based on two things:
1. Money
2. Respect
The good folks at MiLB and PBUC have only one goal – make as much money as possible, regardless of which they trample. In many ways they emulate the railway barons; lie, cheat, yellow press – as long as the money flows in who cares?
MiLB has zero respect for the players, fans, employees or the game itself. Why should they? MLB pays for the players, field staff and many other expenses. If they could make more $$$ on pig races, the warning tracks would get lane stripes.
Is it wrong for AMLU to ask for the recognition that they are in fact professionals? Granted that umpiring in the minor leagues is never going to make anyone rich or perhaps even comfortable paying a living wage is not an unreasonable request by any means.
The strike will end once MLB decides that the risk to their player investment has become too high for comfort. Until then, I fear that things will become more confrontational and less level-headed by both sides. (I do not and will never condone the actions of a few on both sides of this strike. Let us all hope they if nothing else, reasonable actions prevail).
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What you said here does not annoy me in any way. In fact, I agree with everything you said. Is it wrong for AMLU to ask for the recognition that they are professionals? Not at all. Nobody on this forum disputes this! Everyone here knows how sh*tty they have been treated by MiLB and PBUC. You are right! Nobody at these corporations gives a rat's a$$ about the AMLU. They are all about the cheddar, just like all rats are.
The issues we have with what is happening are these:
1. From Day 1 everyone in the AMLU knew that this is the way it is. Nobody promised them a rose garden here. Everyone knows what the term "Baseball's Narrowest Door" means. Let's not kid one another.
2. It seems that in walking off the job and not working these assigned games, the AMLU had the weird notion that the powers that be would just crumble to their knees begging them to return, and that there would be no baseball without them.
3. Then when the AMLU realized that, hey, they're gonna play ball with or without us, they started assailing and demonizing umpires for stepping in and taking their place, after assuming that nobody would dare cross the artificial line they drew. That was a really bad assumption on their part.
I will repeat again, ad nauseum, the fact that these games were going to get played (and umpired) whether the AMLU liked it or not. Most people are non-union in nature, not anti-union. Those people don't have to honor a picket line, and should not be condemned for not viewing the situation in the same light.