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Originally posted by GarthB
If fun is all that matters, get rid of the coaches and parents, give them a wheel barrow of candy and soda and an X-box.
Does the phrase "anything worth doing is worth doing right" mean anything to you? [/B]
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I'll preface this with saying that, with respect to umpiring, I agree with you, Garth.
But I heard a variant of that expression recently: "anything worth doing is worth doing
badly." I'm a bad pianist, but it's worth doing all the same.
I would say that the difference with umpiring is: when you screw up the game (or umpiring) badly enough, it's no longer even baseball. Part of learning a team sport is discipline, which can't be approximated by ignoring the rules.
That's why I agree with Garth's application of his phrase to baseball, even if it lacks application more generally.