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Originally Posted by pdxblue

In your last "blog" entry, you made the following comment:

Crossing a picket line of a strike is neither a moral or an ethical decision. It is nothing more than a business decision.

I disagree.

I would "scab" for FAR less money than I am being paid. Indeed, I would not work PCL games for free, but, I would not work ANY level of baseball for free.

Indeed, my decision to "scab" wasn't based on morals or ethics in any direct way.

Rather a lack thereof

Simply, it is an opportunity of a lifetime to umpire the best baseball I will ever get to umpire.

Very true!

It is also a chance for me to get an idea of how good I currently am, and how good I might have become had I made different decisions many years ago concerning my umpiring career.

How do you figure? How many calls did you get last year to come work minor league ball? Getting a scab assignment means nothing as far as a statement of your umpiring ability. You don't have to be any good whatsoever or even have a general clue of what you are doing to work as a scab right now. Wake up, and Grow up! Every man makes his own decision, I respect that, but don't try to convince anyone else that it is something good or noble you are doing or otherwise justified in any way. Drug dealers justify their "business decisions" as well... If you choose to be a scab, just say "I chose to be a scab, I knew I would never otherwise work at such a level and my ego wouldn't allow me to acknowledge that I wasn't qualified and didn't earn it." I (and others) wouldn't like you any more, but could at least respect the fact that you stood up and owned up to your actions as a man.
I just thought you should know.

I just thought you should know.