What is going to happen to MiLB now?

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Originally Posted by JIGGY

(for all of you who will want to chime in and give a history of the UDP and MLB's funding of it, please don't. I am well aware, that's my point.) If MLB again began dumping money into umpire development, MiLB and more specifically PBUC and the AMLU wouldn't seem so far opposed.

I remember being pulled aside by older umpires and told not to worry about UDP changing to PBUC. That it was only being done so that they could get rid of Ed Lawrence without being accused of (racially) discriminating. That the only thing this change would do is get rid of Ed and bring in Fitzy.

I think they were wrong about that being the "only thing".