# Resolved: The umpire has no right to be on the field in MLB! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-umpire-has-no-right-to-be-on-the-field-in-mlb/63551 "2001-04-27T18:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-umpire-has-no-right-to-be-on-the-field-in-mlb/63551/1 "2001-04-27T18:03:04Z")
Not sure if this should be in GD or MPSIMS, but I’ll take a gamble on MPSIMS. It’s actually very clear. If you go to the [the official rules of baseball](http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseball_basics/mlb_basics_umpire.jsp), you can look up Rule 9.01 which states: > [@](#): > > (a) The league president shall appoint one or more umpires to officiate at each league championship game. The umpires shall be responsible for the conduct of the game in accordance with these official rules and for maintaining discipline and order on the playing field during the game. This rule is fairly straightforward. The umpires are on the field under the authority of the league president. The office of league president, however, no longer exists. It has not existed for over a year. Therefore, there can no longer be umpires on the field in Major League Baseball! Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-umpire-has-no-right-to-be-on-the-field-in-mlb/63551/2 "2001-04-27T19:16:46Z")
Yeah but before the office of the league president dissappeared did they say banish all umps off the field? Seems as if they are the only ones that can change it. The league president didn’t say he wanted them off the field before he left so the way I take it is that they’ll have to amend the rules if they ever decide that they don’t want umpires. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-umpire-has-no-right-to-be-on-the-field-in-mlb/63551/3 "2001-04-28T03:28:37Z")
Okay. Bud, in his infinite wisdom, decided to eliminate the AL umps and the NL umps; now they’re all ML umps. Fine. Do they still differentiate where the home plate ump wears his chest protector? The old NL umps wore it outside their uniform, the AL ones wore it inside. It made a big difference as to how they saw the strike zone, as the NL umps had more mobility in being able to crouch lower than their cousins the balloons in the AL (imagine if Eric Gregg was an AL ump…). So, where’s the MPSIMS here? 🙂 Hey, **Euty** , **Coldy** , and **UncleBeer** , there’s a cleanup on aisle 3! ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-the-umpire-has-no-right-to-be-on-the-field-in-mlb/63551/4 "2001-04-29T01:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mighty Tiki God \* > \*\*Yeah but before the office of the league president dissappeared did they say banish all umps off the field? Seems as if they are the only ones that can change it. The league president didn’t say he wanted them off the field before he left so the way I take it is that they’ll have to amend the rules if they ever decide that they don’t want umpires. > \*\* Actually, **Mighty Tiki God** , it says that the league president appoints the umpires to officiate at each game. Normally, the LP does this through the umpiring schedule. However, I doubt that last LPs issued schedules for 2001. Hence, the LP did not appoint umps for the games currently in progress. Let’s get them off the field! Zev Steinhardt