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Originally posted by BigUmp56
DG,
Andy Obrien is an annonymous person that has recently solicited the entire internet umpiring community to join a new umpiring forum.
I've been told by several other umpires that he is a teenager posing as an adult amateur umpire. He was humiliated by some offials on other boards for being their equivolent of our very own dudeinblue and dumdrum.
The Official Forum is the only credible message board that I know of that was not hit by his solicitations. Maybe Carl, Mick, or Bob caught his sales pitch before it showed up here.
Tim.
[Edited by BigUmp56 on Oct 18th, 2005 at 04:56 AM]
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Andy O'Brien, in the opinion of some, is a pathological liar who impersonated a veteran umpire to gain access to some private forums. He has, in the past, attempted to create umpire forums and news sites to continue his charade and to try to make a buck. His level of competence, again, in the opinion of some, is somewhere between junior high ball and JV.
He resides in Canada, perhaps not coincidentally, in the same area that Umpandy does, according to Umpandy's ISP.
Recently he spammed many posters at internet sites with notices of his new forum, Umpire Forum. Some people report getting spammed with over 300 copies of his email.
Andy's a real sweetheart.