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gordon,
stick around the baseball site for a while.
I think you'll learn a whole lot.
I pick my battles very carefully and offer advice and criticism as merited. You'll find very few that can actually argue with my advice in baseball. They may not like the messenger, but the message has made more than a few of them much more capable.
lastly, you may want to rewind the tape and see who threw the daggers first. I argue that cheating is unacceptable in officiating...period, end of story. I did not call names (okay cheater is a name, but nothing else is appropriate) but Rut jumped in and went postal. Liek I've said all along, the best officials learn how to handle pressure and respond to criticism. Communication is our most important tool. Being aware of better ways to think or act, but refusing to implement them is ignorant, not courageous. I challenge officials to think outside of the box (remember, I proposed doing whatever was necessary to get the call right back in April - look at the World Series!). I urge them to put the game first and keep getting better. Read the Sprinkles exchange and then determine who is kidding who.
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