Mike DiMuro: You should resign.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Mike is a good umpire who made a bad call. He doesn't miss many calls, especially this magnitude. I've worked several games with him, as well as his brother Ray. His father Lou was a great MLB umpire until his untimely death. There are worse umpires in MLB than Mike DiMuro, and he certainly doesn't deserve what the OP is suggesting. Jealousy has reared its ugly head, I guess.

[johnnyg08]

Even worse if the OP is a Cleveland homer. No place in umpiring for homers.

[LeeBallanfant]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Mike is a good umpire who made a bad call. He doesn't miss many calls, especially this magnitude. I've worked several games with him, as well as his brother Ray. His father Lou was a great MLB umpire until his untimely death. There are worse umpires in MLB than Mike DiMuro, and he certainly doesn't deserve what the OP is suggesting. Jealousy has reared its ugly head, I guess.

Shame on the ML and Bud Selig, Such a great umpire as Mike DiMuro has since he bacame a regular in 2000 worked a total of 2 post season
series.

What do they have against him?

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant

Shame on the ML and Bud Selig, Such a great umpire as Mike DiMuro has since he bacame a regular in 2000 worked a total of 2 post season
series.

What do they have against him?

Maybe he needs to sleep with all the Selig family since he is a lecagy.......

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Mike is a good umpire who made a bad call. He doesn't miss many calls, especially this magnitude. I've worked several games with him, as well as his brother Ray. His father Lou was a great MLB umpire until his untimely death. There are worse umpires in MLB than Mike DiMuro, and he certainly doesn't deserve what the OP is suggesting. Jealousy has reared its ugly head, I guess.

I am sure he is a wonderful guy and once again my position is not about him or anyone. But there are guys that have to grade out worse and there seems to be no fear of losing their job. Honestly that is all I am saying and when all these calls or situations come up, I would think that if some guys knew they might not be back if they are rated at the bottom and replaced the bottom with guys that can work, then the overall quality would change. And one of the problems is there are too many sons of former guys working in the Majors as well. You are telling me there are not other guys good enough than a son of a former umpire?

Peace

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am sure he is a wonderful guy and once again my position is not about him or anyone. But there are guys that have to grade out worse and there seems to be no fear of losing their job. Honestly that is all I am saying and when all these calls or situations come up, I would think that if some guys knew they might not be back if they are rated at the bottom and replaced the bottom with guys that can work, then the overall quality would change. And one of the problems is there are too many sons of former guys working in the Majors as well. You are telling me there are not other guys good enough than a son of a former umpire?

Peace

Mike didn't make it because of who his father was. He busted his A$$ in the Minors all throughout the 90s.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Mike didn't make it because of who his father was. He busted his A$$ in the Minors all throughout the 90s.

I am not saying he did get their without work. And I am sure that his education and being around his father helped him in ways it would not help others. But when you are giving more than one jobs in multiple sports to guys that dad was a former professional official, that just wreaks of nepotism. And that is part of the problem, because it does not seem like the best are getting hired in many cases. Again, all I am wondering is why can the MLB have a better staff and why they cannot get rid of a guy or two. We all know guys that just do some goofy stuff and those guys never get fired. I know that this is in large part because of the union contract, but MLB should have some power to get better guys into place. It is embarrassing to have guys that are so big that could not get hired to work HS games and screw up, but they keep their jobs. A college guy does not make weight and they get rid of them without much fanfare.

Peace

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not saying he did get their without work. And I am sure that his education and being around his father helped him in ways it would not help others. But when you are giving more than one jobs in multiple sports to guys that dad was a former professional official, that just wreaks of nepotism. And that is part of the problem, because it does not seem like the best are getting hired in many cases. Again, all I am wondering is why can the MLB have a better staff and why they cannot get rid of a guy or two. We all know guys that just do some goofy stuff and those guys never get fired. I know that this is in large part because of the union contract, but MLB should have some power to get better guys into place. It is embarrassing to have guys that are so big that could not get hired to work HS games and screw up, but they keep their jobs. A college guy does not make weight and they get rid of them without much fanfare.

Peace

His dad died long before he ever became an umpire. Nepotism had zero to do with it. He didn't get any breaks because of who his dad was, he earned his way due to merit. I was there.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

His dad died long before he ever became an umpire. Nepotism had zero to do with it. He didn't get any breaks because of who his dad was, he earned his way due to merit. I was there.

Nepotism is not limited to what happened in this specific situation. I know many people that an individual's parents and got breaks based largely on that association. Again, I think you are focused way too much on this guy rather than the overall point I am making. My point is if this guy or others keep making bad calls like this that would get us fired at HS games if tape showed, then why is that not something that could eventually get a guy fired from MLB if they cannot keep up with the rest of the staff? There have been a lot of very bad misses this season and in past post seasons but those individuals seem to keep their rank. That is all I am asking, not whether this guy earned his spot. But even in the other sports there is a similar claim that the sons of former pro officials earned their spot too, but that does not mean there is no nepotism involved either. I am sure there are thousands that could and would be qualified to work just like the guys that are there now.

Both the NFL and NBA gets rid of a portion of their staff every year for their performance.

Peace

[Publius]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Nepotism is not limited to what happened in this specific situation. I know many people that an individual's parents and got breaks based largely on that association. Again, I think you are focused way too much on this guy rather than the overall point I am making. My point is if this guy or others keep making bad calls like this that would get us fired at HS games if tape showed, then why is that not something that could eventually get a guy fired from MLB if they cannot keep up with the rest of the staff? There have been a lot of very bad misses this season and in past post seasons but those individuals seem to keep their rank. That is all I am asking, not whether this guy earned his spot. But even in the other sports there is a similar claim that the sons of former pro officials earned their spot too, but that does not mean there is no nepotism involved either. I am sure there are thousands that could and would be qualified to work just like the guys that are there now.

Both the NFL and NBA gets rid of a portion of their staff every year for their performance.

Peace

Your point is well taken. But, it cuts both ways. I know a guy who got released at AAA when he was scheduled to move up because a certain evaluator never forgave that guy's relative for rescinding his resignation in the Richie Phillips fiasco. He got f##ked because of his relative .

[Steven Tyler]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

His dad died long before he ever became an umpire. Nepotism had zero to do with it. He didn't get any breaks because of who his dad was, he earned his way due to merit. I was there.

You were there?

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

You were there?

I was there during his long minor league career, and since he was a member of my association, we heard of his progress continually.

BTW, What is a "lecagy?"

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I am not saying he did get their without work. And I am sure that his education and being around his father helped him in ways it would not help others. But when you are giving more than one jobs in multiple sports to guys that dad was a former professional official, that just wreaks of nepotism. And that is part of the problem, because it does not seem like the best are getting hired in many cases. Again, all I am wondering is why can the MLB have a better staff and why they cannot get rid of a guy or two. We all know guys that just do some goofy stuff and those guys never get fired. I know that this is in large part because of the union contract, but MLB should have some power to get better guys into place. It is embarrassing to have guys that are so big that could not get hired to work HS games and screw up, but they keep their jobs. A college guy does not make weight and they get rid of them without much fanfare.

Peace

Does it wreak of nepotism when the child of an athlete makes it to the pros or major Division 1? Griffey? Ripken? Jordan? Alomar?

I'm not saying you're wrong about ML umpires sticking around when they can't cut it, but claiming nepotism is at play doesn't seem accurate to me. It could simply be that the natural tendencies that made their fathers ML umpires were passed on to the children.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Does it wreak of nepotism when the child of an athlete makes it to the pros or major Division 1? Griffey? Ripken? Jordan? Alomar?

Agree with your point.

Save 'wreak' for what you do with havoc; you want 'reek' here, which is the stinky one.

Damn spell checkers.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Agree with your point.

Save 'wreak' for what you do with havoc; you want 'reek' here, which is the stinky one.

Damn spell checkers.

Shut up.

I was just copying Jeff.

I blame Reagan.