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Yes, Mr. Benham, that's exactly what happened. I have no regrets at all about doing what I did. I had sent Mr. McGriff numerous e-mails asking him to at least take a look at what was going on between umpires on the board. It was a disgrace to anyone who calls himself/herself an umpire. He only responded by telling me he had no intention of changing thing's. This was and still is a public forum were talking about. Anyone, including my children could read the board.
There were rules questions posted by some individuals who were obviously looking for help. For the most part, all they read after their post was hate filled rhetoric and profane filth of all kinds. To me, that was unacceptable. I felt they deserved to have their questions answered or discuss any baseball related issue without fear of the nonsense that was going on being showered on them. I certainly couldn't point them to this site to have their question answered, now could I. Some of you would have jumped all over them for posting questions you felt were beneath you. I'm not trying to sugar coat thing's on my board, but at the same time, I'm not going to allow any of the crap that was taking place on that board to occur. On this board, we can disagree with one another one day, and then agree on another while still being civil. There, unless things were changed, that was never going to happen.
I've not even covered all the homophobic or race related hatred spewed out on his forum. It must have finally gotten his attention when I began to pull some of the regular decent posters away from the site by posting my link. He decided to acquiesce and change things. I'll do it again in a heart beat if it returns to the way it was. We deserve better than that as officials.
Tim.
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