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Originally posted by cbfoulds
Lastly, I really did not mean to give offense, and I am genuinely sorry that I did. However, I DID, in fact, read, quite carefully, both the subject matter and the substance of this thread; and I gave particular attention to your posts in it, since that is where all of the actual "information" necessarily must be found. If anyone impugned the integrity of your Board members, I was not I. YOU captioned this thread "An ethics problem?". Maybe I misread your intent, but it seemed that you were concerned about someone's ethics, and since you resigned in protest of the vote, it appeared that the vote was the ethical issue you were concerned about.
Long story short, I publicly apologise to you and your now-former collegues on your Board for any offense my post gave or any implication of lack of integrity caused by my cultural ignorance. My only real defense is that I also clearly did not understand what you were seeking by way of comments and input.
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Apology accepted.
The subject of the thread was "An ethics problem?" That is: Is it an ethics problem at all? I never said the action of the Board was unethical. Certainly, mine was not. I was seeking the opinions of others on that "subject."
BTW: The only other times the exemption has ever been granted by our chapter is for illness certified by a physician. The clinic comes about three weeks before play-off season, so we've put reliable play-off umpires on our list even though they were absent.
This year, though, we provided TWO clinic dates to make life easier for our candidate umpires.