[Rich]

Originally Posted by WhatWuzThatBlue

You are amusing, not annoying...you give yourself far too much credit.

I'm tired so I'll make it brief, player development will not suffer with the bodies they have out there and the ones who will soon join them. The competency of the umpires has never factored into the equation to release or promote and individual. Eric Gregg was one of the most incompetent fools to walk the big league diamonds and I don't recall anyone being released because of his zone! Who are you kidding?

Listen to the International League President's interview. He is content with the umpires he sees and that is AAA! In fact, he knows that with the AMLU decision, his representatives have just made his job easier. They will contact the D1 crews and former minor leaguer blues to come do the work. They can handle anything that comes their way.

I enjoyed your response to Mr. B, how does that bum knee effect your ability to deliver the effort demanded by those players? Don't they deserve a fleet footed gazelle with twenty-twenty vision and unimpeachable morals out there? By your own admission, you aren't providing the quality that a 'regular guy' does. You make this far too easy.

I'm tired and I need my beauty rest or I'll look like Ernest Borgnine soon. (Yes, I know he's dead, that just makes it worse!)

Ernest Borgnine is 89 and very much alive.