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Umps baiting "As They See 'Em," a recently released book by Bruce Weber , is a superb account of what it's like to be an umpire. You should read it. Unfortunately for the major-league umpires, however, folks in the commissioner's office have read it. And they are not pleased. According to multiple people in the loop, the already-frosty relationship between the umpires and Major League Baseball ...

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I agree that in the book, the umpires come across as hardworking and whiny. Whether the whining is justified is a matter of opinion. The book says that umpires are accepted as a necessary evil...you can't live with 'em and you can't live without them. Until that attitude changes (and why should it?) the other things will not change.

Unfortunately, labor doesn't have a lot of bargaining power. Striking won't work, ecause it will be not to difficult to come up with 68 scabs. I don't know what else they could use as a bargaining chip.

I don't think the book will have an impact either way, unless it falls on the sympathetic ears of someone in management...not likely.

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And not including at least their names in the WS brochure... well that's just pretty pathetic on the part of MLB. It's a thumb in their eye, but if the stories in the book are correct (and I've no reason to believe they're not) it's no surprise considering the source.

I think a big part of the problem with MLB at the very top is it's incestuous relations between owners/and the Commissioner himself. Bud Selig should never have been made Commissioner, and MLB has been hurt ever since he's been in that position. :tantrum:

"Where have you gone, Bart Giamatti... ? Baseball needs you!" :D

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