Detroit — At first, Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said he didn’t care if the umpire’s union was staging a protest against what they consider a lack of support from Major League Baseball.
“I couldn’t be less concerned,” he said. “I don’t even care.”
But then he looked deeper into the content of the umpire’s protest, particularly the part where Ian Kinsler’s rant against umpire Angel Hernandez earlier this week was at the center of it, and that the umpires thought Kinsler’s fine with no suspension was too lenient.
At that point, he called reporters back into his office and was much more fired up, calling the union’s action “petty.