1. Baseball management suffered another legal loss Friday when the Ontario Labor Board ruled that the American League cannot use replacement umpires for Blue Jays games in Toronto. 2. Bob Davidson was discussing the concept of fairness when a car driven by a replacement umpire, Bob Duncan, pulled into the stadium lot. 3. Against this, you have the replacement umpires, who were with the exception of former American League umpires Dallas Parks and Bill Deegan utterly anonymous. 4. Already, baseball officials are lining up replacement umpires. 5. But if Major League Baseball accepts the resignations, it would then initiate the process of hiring replacement umpires. 6. But, he said, if baseball hired replacement umpires, it would be taking a much bigger risk. 7. Denkinger explained how the replacement umpires were harassed and routinely referred to as scabs for at least seven years. 8. Even worse, nobody knows how the replacement umpires will react when confronted with a tricky rules interpretation or a bean-ball battle. 9. Fearing strikes from the NL umps, each club has been instructed by the league office to have four replacement umpires ready to work at each game. 10. He became livid when a replacement umpire, Frank Ballina, called four balls on four consecutive pitches to Delino DeShields. |
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