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Managers & Players will complain
Managers and players will complain, that's what they do.
What bothered me most about the AMLU's publicizing of these types of incidents when the replacment umpires were doing the games was their suggestion that it would not happen if they were working. Everyone with half a brain knows these incidents happen no matter who the umpires are or how good they are.
The AMLU made a huge deal over the manager pulling his team off the field in disgust. They didn't mention that he was behind 11-5 or that the opposing team had batted around twice on his pitcher at the time he pulled his players off the field for their "safety." Think he would have pulled his team off the field leading 11-5? Heck no.
There is some healing that needs to go on in the umpire community and the AMLU needs to take the lead in that. It would help if their members stopped circulating a blacklist to try to prevent amateur guys from getting work.
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