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Old Fri Aug 15, 2008, 10:42am
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
MLB did tell Froemming that it was time to go. They have their ways of letting umpires know when it's their time, without just coming out and firing them. After all, they deserve to go out in style after having stellar careers, just like any other long-time employee. They let Doug Harvey hang around a couple of years past retirement age because....well because he was God, that's because why!
This is MLB. Players are cut all the time even the great ones are cut or traded when they don't know when to let go. In the NBA and NFL there are guys almost every year whose contracts aren't renewed. When was the last time this happened in MLB? Thank God for the strike otherwise Eric Gregg (may he rest in peace. I'm sure he was a fine person and his family misses him.) would have been calling strikes on balls a foot outside for another 5 or 6 years.
 

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