31.   If the umpires were to prevail in the arbitration and regain their jobs, they would have received back pay anyway.

32.   If replacement players would have been a fraud on the public, replacement umpires now are a fraud too.

33.   In the Series, there are umpires from both leagues working the games, bringing their vastly different tendencies together for this marquee event.

34.   In those days, the umpires were in need of leadership.

35.   Ino explained that a manager actually would bow to an umpire only if they were in street clothes and the umpire was older.

36.   Inside, the umpires working were Frank Sylvester, Scott Graham, Bob Nelson, and Mark Wildlowsky, aka replacement umpires.

37.   It is generally agreed that the replacement umpires were fairly God-awful, in part because of their scandalous judgment and also because of the unfamiliarity of their judgments.

38.   Its umpires may be poised to throw out any player, utilityman or star, if he so much as looks quizzically at one of them.

39.   Later, the scab umpires were the focus of lingering problems and bitterness when some of them were hired as full-timers and integrated into regular umpiring crews.

40.   Now the umpire is the Nathan Lane of sports.