21.   It is not written that baseball umpires have to be in triathlon shape.

22.   Major league players can report as late as Monday without penalty ... Mo Vaughn said players and umpires might have trouble adjusting to the new, lower strike zone.

23.   Major league umpires have a new union, but their new leaders have discovered, much to their dismay, that they are involved in the same old negotiations.

24.   Maybe the umpires have to file a petition, or pitch some kind of fit, to get the attention of the feds.

25.   No good umpire would have to.

26.   Obviously, the umpires have as little tolerance for television as they say they will have for players and managers in post-season games.

27.   Phillips also said umpires should have more checkups during the year.

28.   Phillips said he and the umpires had a one-hour conference call Friday and decided to talk again Monday.

29.   So, thanks to their union, the umpires have more security than the players, right?

30.   Some umpires will still have nothing to do with the strikebreaking umpires.