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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
You are correct CK.
And what an insufferable egomaniac this Wilson character is to say more or less that the high school coaches think their regular umpires suck compared to him. Let's all bow down. 
Now I know where my missing Navy dazzle shirt went. Hawkins stole it!  |
I have met Garrett, and he didn't come off as an insufferable egomaniac. But I could be wrong: I think that MiLB umps have to be a bit defensive about their skills and abilities. They have invested years of their lives and thousands of dollars to work for peanuts on the slim chance that they might get to do that work in the show. That chance is even slimmer at the moment, of course.
The schools tell them that they're the best of the best of the best. The contempt that some of them show amateur umpires is a defense mechanism against the possibility that they've made poor choices. But, as I say, I don't know that Garrett is like that.