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Perhaps the two worst umpires in MLB history now belong to the ages, diamond wise. Both making close to half a million a year when they retired. I talked to a AAA ump and he told me about the cushy lifestyle of major league umps and why they stay so long that younger, better ones can't crack the show. One aspect was their per diem. The nice hotels they stay at have breakfast buffets, there is buffet food at the stadium, so they might use their per diem for one meal a day, but maybe not. So they get 10s of thousands of cash they just keep adding to a mutual fund or retirement fund. And they can be terrible like West and Hernandez and keep on working.