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Old Thu Jul 06, 2006, 11:34am
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Originally Posted by GarthB
And I know of at least three other AA umpires who are well qualified for AAA and have not been moved up and are probably in their last year of pro-umpiring. Does one umpire's gender or race tip the scales in his/her favor?

Unfortunately, the answer is probably, "yes."
Probably does. I am just rooting for her to break through, but not if she isn't good enough. What I'm more concerned is that she will be "good old boyed" out of it just because she is a woman.
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