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Originally Posted by PeteBooth
What the hell does the power of unions have to do with the ability to umpire?
It's very difficult discussing something with someone who simply doesn't get it.
You talk about ability in umpiring etc. and my point comparing the Players Union to the Umpire Union was this.
If Umpiring was the "be all and end all" and you need a certain amount of ability to call games, then why wouldn't Major league baseball go out of their way to settle Umpire Union Strikes - Why!
because Major league baseball can go to the Minors Leagues or PRO Schools and get anybody (and by anybody I mean anybody who attended and graduated from PRO Schooll - Geeze I feel like I am talking to my kids) to umpire their games.
Let's assume right now the Major league baseball Umpires went on strike. MLB would simply bring up the guys from the Minors to do their games.
There would not be a Work stoppage because the umpires went on strike.
Of Course one has to go to PRO School in order to be eligable. My point was that Anybody in PRO School or in the Minors could work those games.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used the term Anybody to make my point because you seem to be dense in my usage of the term and the illustrations I gave.
Learn to think "out of the box"
Pete Booth
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Pete
You are confusing politcs with ability. Don't do that. One only needs to look to Washington for the results of that.
I never argued that it takes the equivalent of a heart surgeon to do this. But you DID say that ANYONE could.
That simply is rubbish.
Then you said that any minor leaguer could. Obviously that isn't true and there are a number of released minor league umpires to attest to that. Some even were release when they attempt to fill in at the MLB level with disasterous results.
Then you tried to excuse your position based on a work stoppage. Equally ridiculous and more importantly, irrelevant. As soon as the stoppage was over, what happened? The "real" umpires came back.
What to compare silly arguments? What about the replacement players during the last NFL players strike? I guess the "real" players weren't all that important, eh?
Face it Pete, at best, you misrepresented your position by a poor choice of words. It is proveably not true that ANYONE can umpire.