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Originally Posted by BamaBlue
If it hurts your feelings, lose weight. I know it's easier said than done, but I know it's doable because I lost over 50lbs myself in 2003. If you want to be taken seriously as an official, you have to look the part. Unfortunately, that means being in shape and being clean shaven (I know that's a whole other thread), but it's true.
Sure, you can call LL ball as a fatty and nobody's going to care, but if you seriously want to advance, you're going to have to lose the weight. Even the MLB officials that are overweight are critiqued more harshly by the players and coaches.
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Don't know who ya are, but I've already advanced as far as I'm going to, and I said it hurts people's feelings, not mine. I just find it ignorant to refer to people by their physical appearance, and the only ones that receive that treatment are fat people.
I know quite a few JUCO, D-1, 2, and 3 umpires who are tubs of lard, so the advancement thing isn't quite cut and dried.