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What purpose does it serve for any of us here to argue about LL umpiring? I'm willing to bet that everyone here at one time in their lives umpired at that level when they first suited up. One does not join the army and start off as a general, so I'm guessing that people here started off in LL somehow. Even many of our MLB brothers were at one time LL umpires. I know my friends up there were.
I for one do not look down on LL umpires, for I realized that I was there once before. I go out of my way to help umpires at that level, even if I don't know them, simply because I like to think that my abilities and experience can in some way help them improve. I learned from many good umpires in my life, from MLB and minor league guys at school, to veteran amateurs, and it's paid off. I love to do the same for current LL and similar lower-level umpires. I believe that DH's posting of the tourney rules is in someway similar.
I personally feel there is no place in umpiring for any of us higher-level umpires to ever be condescending to those who either work lower levels or who are involved in lower levels in other capacities.
Just my heartfelt but humble 2 cents.
[Edited by UMP25 on Jun 6th, 2005 at 04:09 PM]
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