MLB Fires 3 Umpire Supervisors

This as a result of the 2009 playoff blown calls.

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Piniella: "This is a tougher job than I thought it would be, I'm going to be honest with you."

by Ivy Walls on Mar 7, 2010 9:50 PM CST reply actions

joe mauer is pleased

for now

by jesus christos on Mar 7, 2010 9:56 PM CST reply actions

Their quality of umpring has gone down sigifnicantly the last few years. It’s about time MLB took action. We forget these men get paid to do a job too and in my opinion many of them have been doing it very poorly.

I’ll even go a step farther, 2007 umps made two horribly blown calls against the Brewers. I still think the Cubs would have won the division but it could have very likely been decided on the final game of the season.

by ak123 on Mar 7, 2010 10:11 PM CST reply actions

Wait, I'm confused...

These men didn’t actually ump the ’09 playoff games, right? Why not fire the actual umpires that blew the calls?

What we Cubs fans should live by: "I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya... it feels phenomenal" ---Vince Vaughn in Dodgeball

by mikegncb34 on Mar 7, 2010 10:14 PM CST reply actions

Because that would make too much sense

And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

by Ace Venom on Mar 7, 2010 10:59 PM CST up reply actions

This will be interesting...

… to see played out. I’m not sure if this was the right move or the wrong move. I sure hope it wasn’t for vanity. IMO there are institutional issues and perhaps it was the supervision and way umpires are managed. Who knows.

by dmlichte on Mar 7, 2010 11:08 PM CST up reply actions

Are the Umpire Supervisors in the Union?

Or now MLB Management? Because firing an MLB management employee would be a lot easier than firing a Union umpire.

"On offense, your most precious possessions are your 27 outs" - Earl Weaver

by RiskyBusiness on Mar 8, 2010 9:31 AM CST up reply actions

Bingo

Management isn’t in the union. They can be fired without cause. The actual umpires would have a chance to contest their dismissal.

by Josh Timmers on Mar 8, 2010 11:42 AM CST up reply actions

That was my first thought

by ol Pete on Mar 8, 2010 9:31 AM CST up reply actions

This isn't the solution.

There’s an easy answer. Use replay in a limited way, as we have discussed here, to get the calls right. Replacing managers will accomplish, IMO, exactly nothing.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Mar 8, 2010 6:33 AM CST reply actions

Exactly

I would also like to see a set, rigid strike zone. No more of this its a strike for a vet but a ball for a rookie nonsense. And I would like to see BAD umpires fired. There should be a penalty for being bad at your job. I wouldn’t let some of these fools ump a pick up wiffle ball game (CB Bucknor I’m looking at you).

I am a traveler of both time and space to be where I have been. Robert Plant 1975

by cmpody on Mar 8, 2010 2:29 PM CST up reply actions