Joe Brinkman

[goyanksgonj]

Originally Posted by mattmets

Has officially retired, according to an article in the Charlotte Observer (http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlot...15316997.htm):

Also, one other article: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...s.2ea98b4.html

In other veteran umpire news, does anyone have any contacts to Ed Montague? He hasn't worked in a while but was at the Bruce Froemming ceremonies in Boston last week. Just wondering if he's also decided to hang up his gear.

A couple of questions:

1) Which AAA guy is getting Brinkman's MLB staff vacancy?
2) What about, which MLB staff guy is getting Brinkman's vacant CC position?
3) When was the retirement officially effective as of?
4) Does MLB plan on making an official announcement at some point of this retirement?
5) Is the WUA Web site going to get updated any time soon? I mean, we've had two retirements recently. And, the Ask the Ump feature still has Tim Welke's 2004 crew. What about Joe West's site getting updated? Finally, the MLB umpire section at the MLB site needs to update Phil Cuzzi's bio to reflect his new number change for this season.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by goyanksgonj

A couple of questions:

1) Which AAA guy is getting Brinkman's MLB staff vacancy?
2) What about, which MLB staff guy is getting Brinkman's vacant CC position?
3) When was the retirement officially effective as of?
4) Does MLB plan on making an official announcement at some point of this retirement?
5) Is the WUA Web site going to get updated any time soon? I mean, we've had two retirements recently. And, the Ask the Ump feature still has Tim Welke's 2004 crew. What about Joe West's site getting updated? Finally, the MLB umpire section at the MLB site needs to update Phil Cuzzi's bio to reflect his new number change for this season.

So, what do MLB umpires' jocks smell like?

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by goyanksgonj

A couple of questions:

1) Which AAA guy is getting Brinkman's MLB staff vacancy?
2) What about, which MLB staff guy is getting Brinkman's vacant CC position?
3) When was the retirement officially effective as of?
4) Does MLB plan on making an official announcement at some point of this retirement?
5) Is the WUA Web site going to get updated any time soon? I mean, we've had two retirements recently. And, the Ask the Ump feature still has Tim Welke's 2004 crew. What about Joe West's site getting updated? Finally, the MLB umpire section at the MLB site needs to update Phil Cuzzi's bio to reflect his new number change for this season.

There is a reason why not much has been publicly said of Joe's retirement. Asking all those questions as if this is some federal case that needs attention NOW is rather ridiculous. In time more information will be forthcoming. Let's just leave it at that.