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Originally Posted by jimpiano
There is no conflict of interest since neither gained anything from the other.
Both made the major leagues on abiliity, not sibling help.
It is ludicrous to specualte that Umpire Haller would change a call to benefit his brother since umpires at that level are under constant scrutiny and supervision.
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I made no such specualtion. And I agree, not only due to the scrutiny, but also because of the shear integrity of the players and umpires at that level.
I made no implications about these two, or MLB (players or umpires). I agree with what you've said. However, there may have been underlying feelings about the fact that they were (are) related leading to U-Haller "wanting to f*** them." I don't know that and am not implying that this is true.
There was a broad question asked about calling a game with a relative playing. I answered just as broadly. I agree that there was nothing gained by these two. There are leagues that won't let you call your brother's, son's, daughter's...game just to avoid any possible conflict of interest. This is why I answered the general question as I did.