Sooooooo....today was the first day...

[Peruvian]

Originally Posted by WhatWuzThatBlue

Your analogy of a sinking ship is not spot on either. MiLB was in fine shape and didn't founder when the replacements walked through the gates. These guys may not be heroes to the AMLU membership, but they are to the people who count on the income they earn from the MiLB program in their town. Without the replacements, the season would have been scrubbed and careers may have ended.

Please don't fall for the line that the amateurs out there were an embarassment. It took a lot of guts to do what they did. Some were threatened, blackballed and harassed in person and online. They still went out there and made the calls - some of the toughest ones that they'll ever see. They didn't do it with dreams of a professional contract either. That fallacy was perpetuated by Jiggy and a couple others. The replacements went out there to maintain America's greatest game.

To a man, I'll bet most of the replacements had this on their mind:

During the lockout/strike of 1994, the whole season was lost. No World Series, playoffs, or anything else. That hurt alot of people.

During the AMLU strike, most of the possible replacement guys had a very tough decision to make. They put baseball on one side of the scale and the AMLU on the other. Guess which one prevailed.

The game is bigger than all of us, whether you are union or not. I don't begrudge the replacements a bit.