The guys want to work, but it has to be something that's fair. The profitability in baseball is so huge, umpires are affordable. |
The talent is there, but the players must be reminded that success is only one per cent inspiration and 99 per scent perspiration. |
Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract. |
There's not a lot out there that's going to allow prices to fall. |
This England attack doesn't hurt as many batsmen as we used to, but they are hostile and they deserve to win the Ashes. |
Umpires made more seven years ago than they do now. Baseball has had tremendous growth and the pressure on officiating to be next to super human is very evident. |
We just haven't decided, and we don't have a timeline to do that. |
We look forward to sitting back at the table with minor league baseball. |
We love the game. We sweat and bleed out there to produce a product the fans love. It is unfortunate it has gotten to this point. |
We welcome the support of our big league brothers. It means the world to us that they want to stand with us and help us in our fight. |
We will continue to send that work outside. As for the long term, I think that does depend on what the go-forward plan is from here. |
We'll never, ever compromise safety. We never have. |
We're certainly not close to making any decisions about hiring of permanent replacements. |
We're very confident with where we sit right now. |
When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues. |