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Stereotyping is the crutch of the lazy man, who wants an explanation for the way things are but isn't willing or able to do the hard work required to discover the truth. And the truth is rarely, if ever, as neat and tidy as the stereotypes would have you believe.
Again, I don't believe one can write off comments simply by calling them sterotypes. We all have different experiences. Your and Fronheisers are vastly different from mine. You have seen good umpires work LL games. I have only seen Little League umpires who were wearing their gear on the outside of their jeans and tee-shirts, couldn't stay set calls, flinched on every pitch, stopped after making calls and whipped rule books out of their pockets to check their calls, divided the diamond at second base for all calls, ruled tags on dropped balls because "he had the ball when the initial tag was applied", ruled foul-tips as foul balls, said infield flys meant the ball had to be treated as if caught when it wasn't, and much more similar behavior.
These aren't sterotypes. These are people I see. They are very real. They not only represent LL umpires where I live, they ARE the LL umpires where I live.
I understand that there are some good umpires who work little league. Like I said, they are different than little league umpires. And while I am not surprised that you see ML umpires and D-1 umpires and Varsity umpires make mistakes, I doubt that they are the majority of umpires working those levels. The LL umpires I reference are not only the majority of those working LL here, they are the only LL umpires here.
Sterotype? Nope. The real McCoys.
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