New Umpire School

[Publius]

There is a predictable ubiquity of the order of operations by businesses which attempt to vertically integrate their suppliers.

1. Business becomes dissatisfied with either the quality or the cost of the inputs of their operations.

2. Business hires new management, who determine they can produce better inputs with a different business model, or by using their own people to better manage an existing model.

3. Business acts on its beliefs, ending the existing supplier relationships, or at least drastically curtailing them.

4. Business spends a ton of money in several rounds of failed attempts to produce better inputs than the specialists who theretofore provided them.

5. Business goes to great lengths, due to egos and internal politics, to deny those failures, sometimes lasting for years while the product languishes.

6. More new management is hired. Vertical integration attempts are scuttled, and a press release is issued, stating the company is going to "concentrate on its core operations."

'Twas always thus, and thus will ever be.

[johnnyg08]

Wow, seems like a no brainer to those who want to go to work in the minors should go to this school. Even if it costs more money. Why don't the other schools tell a candidate that they might be too young for the pros and to come back to camp again? Seems like somewhat of a bait and switch...question to those to know more about this than I do...will PBUC actually take an 18 yr old if they're one of the top students? Or will they make them come back when they're older, spend another $3,000+ only to say...sorry, better luck next time. If an 18,19 yr old has no chance to make it to PBUC, they should state that in their ads to wait until they older before coming to umpire school if their goal is to work MLB. Or is it truly all about the money? I don't know the answer.

[GerryB]

No doubt about that Publius, from MLB's point of view. What I could never get is that the School's trained them for what, two months? But PBUC and UDP before them had them for 8 - 13 years. While the school is the core, couldn't they do some shaping in the monors?

[yawetag]

Originally Posted by GerryB

While the school is the core, couldn't they do some shaping in the monors?

Old habits die hard.