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Originally Posted by BenedictArnold
BTW...A PCL manager was just issued a ten game suspension for arguing with an umpire after the umpire took a live ball and put it in his ball bag on a drop 3rd strike. The manager didn't make contact with the umpire, he just argued too long. He then went public with his opinions about the umpires. Ten games...apparently arguing with a replacement umpire deserves the same penalty as a guilty finding of steroid use under the 2005 standard. Now I ask you...who is the real hypocrite here?
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Benedict,
I have no problem with the minor lg. umps trying to get more money. I just think they have gone about it the wrong way by trying to hurt the game and attacking fellow umpires, calling them scabs and worse. There's guys working who make very little calling H.S. or lower level college games and who have to pay for their own health and liability insurance. It sounds like many more D1 guys will be working soon too.
As for WWTB i think what he says needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but he give more facts than most of the posters who are either rabid pro union and if you don't have the blinders on and agree that everyone else is a scab and lousy umpire, or blindly support the other side.
Who was the PCL manager? I thought the steroid penalty was now 50 games. Do you recall a manager ever interfering with a live ball before?
Appreciate your thoughts.