The umpires selected to work the World Baseball Classic are longtime professionals, three of them were members of our full-time staff and many have extensive experience at the Major League level. |
They make these numbers up. |
They make these numbers up. We just think it's important that people understand and realize these are not real in any sense of the word. |
Tip of the iceberg, ... I really do believe this topic is resolvable. |
Tip of the iceberg, I really do believe this topic is resolvable. |
We are awaiting a formal response from the union. We expect that in the very near future. |
We are disappointed obviously that the union decided today to set a strike date. Our hope had been that we could get an agreement with the players without the players taking this step that causes such concern to so many of our fans. Our disappointment is magnified by the fact that as a result of compromises by both sides we made substantial progress towards a new agreement over the past weeks. A number of important issues have been resolved and we are close on many others. |
We are early in the game, ... But, from our prospective, the most important issue in the negotiations was competitive balance. We believe we have seen a significant improvement just this year. |
We have our regular crews. If somebody gets injured and they're unwilling to work, we'll find somebody willing to work. |
We like to keep them fairly low-keyed. You're not going to see a lot of publicity. |
We think you cannot evaluate a program based on the results of a single case, that overall, the rules that we negotiated are designed to be strict but fair with the overall goal being to deter use, ... To the extent that anyone disagrees with the result in a particular case, it might be the result of our desire to deter use. |
We think you cannot evaluate a program based on the results of a single case, that overall, the rules that we negotiated are designed to be strict but fair with the overall goal being to deter use. To the extent that anyone disagrees with the result in a particular case, it might be the result of our desire to deter use. |
We've worked very hard on our relationship with the players association. The economics of the sport are strong and the current agreement has worked very well. Those three things are good reason to be optimistic we can get a new agreement without a dispute. |
With respect to the appeal process for on-field discipline, that process was negotiated in collective bargaining and has served the industry well for decades, ... Mr. Wells' dissatisfaction with his appeal says more about his poor behavior than it does about the quality of the appeal process. |
With respect to the appeal process for on-field discipline, that process was negotiated in collective bargaining and has served the industry well for decades. Mr. Wells' dissatisfaction with his appeal says more about his poor behavior than it does about the quality of the appeal process. |