Friday, May 24, 2013
Fay Vincent: THE UMPIRE FIX
(www.murraychass.com)
TONY RANDAZZO NO MISTER ROCK AND ROLL, MR. COMMISSIONER.
Read More...Major League Baseball should immediately adopt reforms to the umpiring system. MLB is now a $7 billion dollar industry awash in cash so the costs of these changes can hardly be the reason to defer making them.
1. MLB should buy the umpire schools and take over the training and development of all umpires in professional baseball. The recruitment, training and compensation of minor league and major league umpires should be controlled ...
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1. Belfry Bob posted on November 13, 2012 at 02:54 PM # hit 0 | hit 0However, we were offended that the advertisement for the grand re-openning of "new urban hot spot gentlemens club" Lollypops, was not featured more prominantly.
Was so annoyed when they got knocked out.
Merson is a great player, he also won the tournament before the main event for $1.1 million.
A little surprised MLB wasn't all over this ... unless somebody actually did pay the licensing fee.
Do you think they'd be mad that he was wearing the jersey? or mad that he would be wearing it with the buttons/patches on it?
Has it really been reduced to a life-time ban? Will Rose become eligible upon his death?
Once you decide to sell officially branded apparel to the public, don't you waive that right (at least wrt the merchandise)? It's not like baseball jerseys come with an end user license agreement.
This although #9 is probably right. But I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty of corporate logos fuzzed out on new broadcasts and stuff. But, yes, I was thinking about how they don't let movies, games, etc. use real team names/logos unless they paid. But maybe they've eased up on that anyway (thinking back to Seinfeld, Mets, Yankees) which would be sensible.
is he saying this as some sort of viable excuse for rose? if so, that meme has to stop.
afaik, rose's ban is still 'permanent'. to me, that means forever, but i'm just a poster on a website.
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