I agree with all of that. Thing is that I think baseball could have fixed all of this by breaking the MLB umpires union. It's not that I'm anti-union - far, far

I agree with all of that. Thing is that I think baseball could have fixed all of this by breaking the MLB umpires union. It's not that I'm anti-union - far, far from it - it's that it should be the professional baseball umpires union, and cover minor league officials, too. At that point you could demote the worst of the MLB umpires (we all know who they are) and replace them by promoting people who are better. Instead of doing the hard right thing, baseball does something easier that will be worse for the game. Faugh.