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Originally Posted by ctblu40

Lets say he's been a pro umpire for 4 years. Let's also assume that he was an amature for 2 years before that (because not many people get a degree in baseball umpiring).

Now, in those 4 years in MiLB, he's probably worked 28-30 games a month per season (6 months long). That's roughly 168-180 games per season, for a total of about 672-720 MiLB games. That's not counting spring training, fall league games and possible winter ball assignments.

Is it possible that this amount of experience is equal to 10+ years of amature experience? Not too many amature umpires work that many games each year...

Maybe it is just me, but I got the impression that PDX was being a bit sarcastic. If this same situation had happened to one of those "replacement umpires", the charge would have been that he was in way over his head and didn't know how to handle those types of situations on this level. But since this was a "pro guy" I'm sure he handled it exactly how he was supposed to.(sarcasm note)