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[QUOTE=MikeStrybel;787659]A number of threads focus on ridding MLB of crew members for bad calls. A good question was asked (but never answered) regarding the practice of punishing MLB umpires for bad calls. I offer this and know others can add to it with stories of those who deserve it, earned fines or simply walked away from the scrutiny.

I don't know this for a fact but my gut feeling is that it's tougher to get rid of below average umpires in baseball than other sports. Certainly no one should be launched because of a bad call or game. But if over a course of a year you don't measure up to certain standards you should be fired. They do that at the lower levels of umpiring why not at the pinacle of the profession? There's too much at stake at the Major League level to not having the absolute best working the games. When was the last time an umpire in the show was fired because he was bad?