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During my morning reading here at home, I saw a link to an article at espn.com:

Umps currently cool on replay, boycott conference call with MLB

Here’s the gist of it: the umpires don’t want to be replaced by machines. So they decided that they won’t talk to the league office about implementing instant replay. Does David Stern stand for this? No. Roger Goodell? Not in a heartbeat. There are a million things wrong with baseball - see my previous comments on that - but “gutless leadership” just jumped into the top 5.

Baseball actually has a chance to get something right*, and yet again the league is going to roll over for a strong union looking out for their best interests at the expense of the game.

Congratulations baseball, you’re irrelevant.

*  On an aside… I don’t think that changing the rules in the middle of the season is a good idea, but giving umps the ability to review certain situations will help the game storm into the 1990’s.