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“I’m thinking, I’m thinking!”

I responded  to a poll this morning.  Nothing unusual about that.   Usually my baseball thinking is right in there with the others, but this one surprised me.     This  one asked what to do about umpires who consistently made bad calls

Here’s the preface to the poll:

“Should umpires be subject to performance-based punishment? Should a high-profile missed call subject an umpire to suspension, fines or even demotion? Or, perhaps, should MLB raise the league minimum for umpires to $480,000, to match their player minimum, so that umpires do have a financial incentive for such scrutiny?”

The responses were overwhelmingly in favor of, you guessed it, doing nothing!  The article, written by Curtis Granderson in the New York Times,  was posted in Close Call Sports,  linked here.    It’s a good read.  Take a look and see what you think.

Related articles

• Why Jim Leyland Is Right: MLB Needs to Hold Umpires More Accountable (bleacherreport.com)
• Shoddy Umpiring Making a Tough Detroit Tigers Season Even More Trying (thedetroitsportssite.com)
• Leyland begs media to make umpires ‘accountable’ for bad calls (VIDEO) (sports.yahoo.com)
• Blown baseball calls: We’ve seen enough (standard.net)
• MLB suspends umpire Bob Davidson and Phillies’ Charlie Manuel (cbssports.com)