40 runs in 4 games and counting. I could be batting 5th and it wouldn’t matter.
I mean, they MAY be able to stay atop the A’s. MAY. If the team’s starting pitcher allows more than two hits, forget it. Not really a recipe for continuing success.
This team isn’t nearly as good as the A’s.
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This is exactly why I haven’t been complaining about Abreu like I did last year. His being the worst player in the league is nearly irrelevant to the proceedings.
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Same at my airline.
Our union protects a lot of lousy pilots because they have to.
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So if a pilot crashed 37 times a month and killed 487 passengers, since Christmas, the other pilots would still support him?
It’s not the other pilots that would support him. Quite the opposite. But in this scenario it would just be the union lawyers.
In baseball, it’s the other umps that support him. At what point do the other musicians or pilots say “you’re killing our profession and industry, you can’t stay on the job”?
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I’ll admit that I don’t know how the umps govern themselves. But if it resembles litterally any other union the opinions of the fellow union members is irrelevant. The union represents its members to the fullest through litigation which typically scares off management or at least draws out the process. Sometimes it’s warranted sometimes it’s not. No system is perfect.
Precisely.
So I don’t know what kind of musician you are, in an orchestra or heavy metal band, but if you had one guy who constantly destroyed your performance, every single night, to the point that the people who purchase a ticket to see you play complain about how bad you are, there is no point you would ever say “dude, you’d can’t keep doing this. You’re out of the band”? Literally every other union I’ve ever seen has a mechanism to discipline their own. But you’re telling me it’s completely impossible for umpires, pilots and musicians?
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I was wondering this exact thing.
Orchestras.
That answer is way too complicated for the TZ. But just know that the union also protects members from other members. It’s not as simple as you might think.
FWIW I’m a member of 4 locals.
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Is there a twelve year cycle of suck for Astros baseball?
That’s what I could come up with and I have seen some of this from the sidelines in San Antonio. I couldn’t connect the dots for anything but orchestra or maybe session musicians.
Every union I’ve ever heard of or worked with has a charter and bylaws which allow for self discipline of recalcitrant members. That pilot, umpire, and musician unions don’t is bizarre to me.
Like I said this is too long an answer. There is a grievance process but the act of getting a fellow union member actually fired is a Herculean task.
In short, his fellow umps are not enabling him.
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They are probably embarrassed.
They are. It is not member against another. It is union collectively expelling him. The reason Angel Hernadez is a Major League umpire is because the other umpires lack integrity. Period.