Is Tim McClelland done?

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Originally Posted by lawump

According to the Red Sox radio broadcast team last night (4/17) John Hirshbeck had back surgery this week. I haven't heard anything about that...but the Red Sox announcers cited the Yankees/Red Sox series umpiring crew as their source. The announcers said they had gone out to dinner with both the Yankees/Red Sox crew AND the crew that was umpiring the Mets series the night before (4/16).

The announcers went out to dinner with the crews? First of all, given that they were both home consecutively, it was more than likely the same crew. Second of all, I, personally, would find that to be a conflict of interest, ESPECIALLY if either one and/or both of the game (s) had a questionable call (s).