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Originally Posted by JIGGY
GO TO UMPIRE SCHOOL IF POSSIBLE, THE BEST CLINICS YOU CAN IF NOT. ALOT OF GUYS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT THIS, BUT GUYS WHO WENT TO SCHOOL ARE LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF THOSE WHO DON'T. (SOMEBODY IS GOING TO START CRYING AND TELLING ME HOW MANY YEARS THEY HAVE UMPIRING AND HOW THAT IS JUST AS GOOD AS GOING TO UMPIRE SCHOOL) ONE OF THE TWO SCHOOLS (I WON'T SAY IT IS CLEARLY THE BETTER OF THE TWO SCHOOLS) IS JIM EVANS ACADEMY WWW.UMPIREACADEMY.COM . JIM ALSO DOES LOCAL CLINICS. JIM'S PASSION IS TRAINING YOUNG UMPIRES. CONTACT HIM AND ASK HIM AS MANY QUESTIONS AS YOU CAN. |
Jiggy,
Don't type in all caps. It's rude.
Many of us who did not attend pro school were instructed in clinics and classrooms by:
1) Pro School Graduates who did not get minor league jobs
2) Minor League Umpires giving back to the association
In these clinics and classroom instruction, we were trained with the same intensity as in pro school. We were taught the same mechanics. We were taught game management skills just like at the pro school, with instructors posing as managers getting in our faces. All the boring, tedious safe/out drills, all the plate work in the cages, all the hour after hour of base mechanics, etc. Every facet of the game, with refresher courses every year!
After attending 9 or 10 of these clinics, and having MLB umpire Mike Winters as an association member and classroom instructor, and being taught meticulously the "pro school" way, I do feel that my 20 years in the business gives me a great deal of credibility, whether you think so or not.
I was in the Army back in the early '70's. We went to pro school too. It was called Basic Combat Training. We didn't come out of there and think we were better than the grizzled old veterans who had been around for 20+ years. We had respect for their service, even though we were freshly trained. You are disrespecting the umpires on this forum with your statements to disregard what we have to say.