The Next Generation of Pros

[Tim C]

Sal,

Wasn't it the Northern League (the team in St. Paul)that once had a back-up rightfielder that had no legs (I believe he played at the same time Daryll Strawberry was making one of his many "returns" to baseball after a drug issue)?

Wasn't it the Northern League that this past summer allowed the first inning of a league game to be played by a simulated baseball game software program?

I agree with you. If someone claims they work "minor league" baseball and are hanging their hat on the Northern League I think they have stretched their resume.

HHH also wrote an article one time about working D1 baseball in his area. The entire article was about just how bad some D1 programs are and that he used the games on his resume but was embarrassed by the lack of quality in the programs.

So what we have is a great unknown of how anyone would do working games. The fact that is obvious is that the game would evolve and the umpires would have little to no impact on the game itself.

I make the following analogy:

If you take two evenly matched professional football teams you can have a good, competative game. It does not matter if the teams are NFL, WFL, XFL or what not . . . as long as the "teams" are from the same level of football the game will not be noticably different.

Same with umpires. Eventually whatever quality of umpires work it will become acceptable.

I don't think for a moment that the MiLB umpires will not be working their games this season. They will settle for slightly less than they are asking and the season will go forward.

WWTB, I personally deleted the thread as it had began to resemble a McGriffesque personality of personal attacks between a few of the posters.

Tee