Peter's concluding comment in his initial post was blunt to be sure, perhaps even rude. But true nonetheless. I was incompetent early in my career, too. As Steve Mattingly says, "Good judgment comes from bad judgment."
LDUB: Learn from your mistakes and move forward. The hardest aspect of umpiring to learn is game managment. Because it can't be taught in a book, game management must be learned by trial-and-error experience. Try to keep the rats in the game; but when it's time for them to go, heave them!
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