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Originally posted by Justme
SanDiego Steve:
I'm new to this board but you are clearly the best internet baseball umpire that I have ever seen...on any board.
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Okay, I sincerely regret what obviously is sour grapes on my part for being stupid, and not going to pro school when I had the chance. It was a once in a lifetime shot, but I didn't go. It was not for lack of huevos, as has been suggested. Nor was it that I was too slow, because I can still beat any runner to third on a naked triple, even though I'm sure not as fast as I used to be (I do travel a bit closer to the back of the mound than I used to). I listened to too many people discouraging me, saying that the school wouldn't give me a job, and they would say go back home and work HS and College ball.
I am certainly not an "internet umpire", that should be obvious since I wear my heart on my sleeve, and give up way too much information about myself. On the contrary, I have never been on umpire forums before very recently. Apparently, being new on forums is equal to being a new umpire, a phenomenon I hadn't expected. So I would say that I am more of a real umpire than an internet umpire.
Dave, thanks for the offer to check me out. That may or may not be possible, as I am expecting (hopefully) a great new job for which I will be testing for soon, which may conflict with my availability next season. If I am able to umpire, I will, and you would be free to check me out.
All in all, I deeply regret the factual errors in my posts, and in no way think that I could just walk in and take any of the fine MLB umpires place, just like that.
Had this or that happened in the past, who knows? I am quite sure that I'm not the only veteran umpire out there that has these same regrets.
[Edited by SanDiegoSteve on Oct 19th, 2005 at 03:13 PM]