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My, my, aren't we sensitive today. Defensive too, I might add.
You felt perfectly entitled to put down Gordon with a smug post for your perceived biases of his umpiring. However, when someone turns the tables and does it to you, you become all huffy.
I have trained hundreds of umpires and supervised or assigned probably 600-800 over the years. The go along and get along umpires like you have a valuable place in our organization. They form the majority of the staff and are the bread and butter of the operation. It's great for customer service.
There are just not suitable for the big time, that's all.
Jon Bible et al, can umpire with few ejections. They use their reputations to control the mob. Umpires who strictly work in season high school and conference college baseball, use the high school ADs and threat of NCAA sanctions to accomplish the same thing.
Summer ball/rec ball umpires have very little behind them other than their own skills as a diplomat or an a$$hole, depending on the situation. When I see those umpires with a low ejection count, I know that they are passing their responsibilities on to others or...
...their name is Jon Bible, Dave Yeast, Bob Gustin, or any of about 100 other umpires with a known reputation. Are you claiming that you are in that category of umpire?
Peter
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Sensitive? Defensive? Smug? Biases? Hmmmmmm?? I was actually trying to introduce the gentlemen to a more humane approach to officiating.
Peter, I have no intention or time for a debate here, because I really have trouble believing that someone with your experience, just doesn't know better. And if that is true, then agreeing that we disagree may be the extent of our discussion.
I don't work in customer service, I don't put up with crap in my games, and I don't need to throw people out. If that puts me into your top 100 group, thank you. Lets see here,
Bible, Yeast, Gustin, Annaccone, Yea! I guess it does have a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
Have a good day.