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metsandfins,

Did you seriously just make the exact same post that Borgland did several hours ago and directly above yours? Thread grunching FTL.

I am amazed at the level of conflict which the MLB and the union allow its umpires. I mean the classic nose-to-nose yelling stuff. You'd never see that in the NBA and for whatever reason the NFL's players almost never mix it up with refs and umpires (the head coach seems to be the only one and they never seem to get penalized for their tirades). Yet in baseball, the least testosterone-filled of the three, you have these umps giving it as good as they get it, with the power to run the player or coach at their whim. It seems so strange.