With baseball general managers set to discuss instant replay next week, the new league negotiator for Major League Umpires wants his members included in any talks.
"It would create a big change in our working conditions," Lamell McMorris said Friday. "It would require a lot of training. Naturally we're open to discussions with Major League Baseball about this, but it is an issue pivotal enough that it would probably have to be addressed in our next collective bargaining agreement. What is important to us in regard to this issue is that the commissioner's office involves us in the decision."
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has been against replays but said during the postseason he is willing to let GMs debate the matter. If GMs recommend replays be used, baseball would have to decide whether umpires or some other group would run the equipment.
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