Happy Minor Lg Umpires coming back!!!--Update: deal rejected

[Athletics36]

As reported by ESPN Minor lg. Umps have reached a tentative agreement and should be back to work by May 8th. I think the Delmon Young incident played alot into this finally getting done but I attended all of the D-Cubs games played this past week in Jupiter and let me say "they were the most badly officiated games I have ever been to. The replacment umps even though I was glad they were working games to let these teams play the quality of officiating has hurt these teams. There was a play at home plate last night in the D-Cubs game were Fox clearly had the plate blocked and runner had to slide around him that everybody on the 1st base side clearly saw the tag but because umpire was out of position called the runner safe!! Then later in the game the D-Cubs had runners on 1st/2nd with 1 out and ball is hit up the middle and SS fields ball out on outfield grass has no play anywhere and then tries to throw behind runner at 3rd and airmails throw into dugout. Runner on 3rd scores and runner on 2nd was smartly sent home by D-Cubs manager. An overthrow from the outfield runners awarded are awarded 2 bases, well the coach from Jupiter came out to argue the call with umps and changed their minds and wanted a runner sent back to 3rd base. Umpires then went over to the D-Cubs dugout to tell them well then a coach from the D-Cubs argued with him for a few minutes and the reversed their call again to allow the runner to score. At this point everybody was losing their cool and the Jupiter coach stormed out of the dug-out and went into a "Profanity laced" tirade at both umps and then got himself tossed. This officiating crew brought this upon themselves because they were so bad. Last nights game the strike zone for both teams in the early innings was consistent but in the 5th/6th innings the umpire suddenly decided to "keyhole" both pitchers and unfortunatly at this point both pitchers could do nothing but throw it down the middle. It was like this every night I was there and want to say that with all the Minor Lg games I attended last year can't wait to have to regular umpires out on the field again.

[NCCubFan]

I think that sometimes people fail to realize the importance of good officials in sports until they're out on strike. One missed call can change the outcome of a game, and in the case of a very close race, the entire season. Hopefully they'll ratify the deal and be back.

[Laura]

I'm really glad this was resolved.

[abuck1220]

i thought it was really shameless how the striking umps used the delmon young situation.

[NCCubFan]

Back to the drawing board. The umpires rejected the deal. :(

[Chris]

Back to the drawing board. The umpires rejected the deal. :(

 

I was just about to come and mention that the deal was rejected. Not a good situation.

[NCCubFan]

Unfortunately, it doesn't even sound like they're planning to resume negotiations at this point.

[ChiefsVoice]

Unfortunately, it doesn't even sound like they're planning to resume negotiations at this point.

 

oh well. this is really a non-story to me. I can't tell a whole lot of difference from 05 to 06. The only think I don't like is that without announcing the names they have no accountability. and having different guys every single night makes it tough. but other than those two minor things, these guys havent bothered me much....or at least not any more than the last three seasons!

[jjgman21]

i thought it was really shameless how the striking umps used the delmon young situation.

 

what exactly did they do? I haven't seen anything.

 

 

what is shameless is the MiLB wanting these guys to dedicate their lives to this profession, but paying them peanuts to do so.

[Outshined_One]

Looks like they reached a deal over the weekend:

 

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The minor league umpire strike appears to have reached an end. The umpires union and Professional Baseball Umpire Corp. reached a tentative labor deal Friday, and union membership voted on the deal over the long weekend. If they accepted it (after turning down an earlier deal), the umpires could return to work by June 12. "Minor League Baseball did everything right and our union did everything wrong," one of the striking umpires said, on condition of anonymity. "I guess we can chalk this up to a learning experience. I'm excited about going back to work because there's nothing like being between the white lines. It's when I get back to my hotel that I'll regret it. We're getting the same exact money and this didn't resolve anything. We all just caved to get back for the all-star games."