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Originally posted by Rich Ives
You have a personal set of rules of conduct. While you are certainly entitled to your beliefs, the positions you take are not universally held. Instead of recognizing that others are entitled to their opinions, you belittle them. A person who doesn't give a damn if a hat is fitted or adjustable is merely someone with a different opinion.
But your intolerance for others is something you need to address.
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One thing I've found about Tee is that the postitions he takes on most issues are, in fact, "universally" held among top umpires. The "belittling" that Tee does is exactly the belittling the umpire will face from his peers at the best levels if the umpire does not have most of Tee's attitudes. A person who doesn't give a damn about a fitted vs adjustable hat is not a person with a different opinion, he is an inferior being in top umpire circles.
My beef with Tee is that he is unable to see beyond the ridiculous close mindedness of the top umpire corps and step out and call their foolishness exactly what it is, foolishness. For Tee isn't expressing an "opinion," he is a reflection of thousands of opinions of top umpires. In other words, he isn't "intolerant" as you say, he is reporting the reality of the top umpire corps. I guess that's his job as a journalist. Wannabe NCAA or top FED umpires ignore his "belittling" at their peril.
It's a shame that Tee with 30 years of experience cannot step up and challenge the imbeciles that compose top umpiring circles. What does he have to lose? OTOH, perhaps he recognizes the hopelessness of rattling the cages of the imbeciles. In that respect, he is doing the readers here a favor, and you, Rich, are doing them a great disservice. Your opinions, unlike Tee's, will lead them to oblivion.