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Or you can look at it this way,
"It is not people's jobs on this board to criticize and evaluate MLB umpires."
I cannot agree with this thought.
If that were true we could not allow any critical thought.
To criticize an actor you would have had to been not only an actor but an award winning actor.
To criticize a writer you would have to have not only been a writer but an award winning author.
To criticize a political decision you have have to have served at the highest level of government.
IN FACT I make the following statement:
Posters on this board ARE THE ONLY people who can fairly criticize MLB umpires.
Why you may ask?
1) Any level of professional umpire that would criticize another professional umpire would be suspended or, most likely, fired.
2) Any upper level college umpire that would criticize another umpire (professinal or D1) would be severly dealt with by Dave Yeast. Afterall, D1 umpires think they are as good as minor league umpires.
3) Any Little League umpire that would criticize an MLB umpire is . . . well, after watching the LLWS not qualified to comment even on the work of Smitty's.
That leaves a number of internet based umpires (I say that because the internet is a media outlet) that can truely express thougths ands judgements about the cream of the crop umpires working MLB.
Let me take this one final step further:
If anyone of us (yrs trly, LDUB, Bob Jenkins, Ozzy etc.) where placed at first base in an MLB game TOMORROW with a seasoned professional crew, guess what?
We would be considered the "Smitty" working over their head.
Every time I have talked with Gary Darling, Mike Winters, Ted Barrett, Tim Tschida, Dale Scott or Jim Joyce and talked in critical terms of performance they have NEVER taken offense.
They just consider the source.
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