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Originally posted by Rich Ives
[You cannot rationally equate a choice to not move up the ladder with "badness". You cannot say logically that a manager is bad because he doesn't want to be the HS coach. You cannot logically say the league pres is bad because he doesn't want to be the HS AD or the LL DA. And you cannot logically say an umpire is bad because he doesn't want to be HS umpire.
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You are right. You cannot logically call someone bad because they do not want to move up. But you can call them unmotivated. Unmotivated people, over time, tend to become bad.
Somewhere in this discussion, a poster brought up the subject of the health care profession. The health care profession has two tracks at the top, doctors and nurses. What would you say about an orderly in a hospital who never took advantage of inexpensive community college courses to become an x-ray technician? Or the housekeeping person who never went on to become a LPN. Or the LPN who never went on to become an RN. Or even the dishwasher who never went on to become hospital chef.
The hospitals pay their people to go through these courses. They are desparate for trained workers. If you saw someone who had been an orderly for ten years and never taken advantage of these opportunities, you would be right to conclude theat he was:
1. too stupid to take the courses, i.e. learning disabilities or IQ disabilities.
2. unable to read and write English.
3. unmotivated
In any case, these people are held in distain by the public at large. Likewise, LL umpires are held in distain. From the descriptions of what I read here about their performance at Williamsport, it is not hard to see why.
It may be wrong for us to view those at the bottom of the ladder as unmotivated but that is the way that this country operates. There are lots of reasons for staying at the bottom, but this country operates under the assumtion that everyone tries to better himself. When we see people who make a profession of being at the bottom, we cast stones. Little League umpires are not being treated any differently from anyone else.
Peter