This is what you wrote on October 16th, 2005.
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Originally Posted by GarthB
Oh, sh!t, you're serious. I thought you were pulling our chain. You really believe you're that good! Damn.
Okay, let's get to the truth of it all. It'll take some time, but what the hey.
I've seen several internet posters work games and several have seen me. I haven't seen you, but we can fix that.
Proposal 1:
I spend three weeks in Southern California each winter. Just post your winter schedule and I'll come and video one of your games. We can download it to a website and let everyone bask in your wonder.
Proposal 2: I'll be attending Jim Evans' Desert Classic again next year. Come and join me, and, if at the end of the week Jim agrees with your assessment of yourself, I'll pay your clinic fees.
I'll put my money where my mouth is and you put your "talent" where your mouth is. What could be more fair?
Edited to add: BTW, is it true you post at umpire.org as "Augie Donatelli?"
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This was my response, the
very next day, October 17th. (where did you get that I did not respond immediately?):
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Okay, Garth, here's the deal
proposal #1: If you want to wait until around February, when our high school pre-season gets underway, fine. I'm not going to be working before anyone else here gets to.
proposal #2: Let me get this straight: You mean you want me to subject myself to a strenuous week of running and sweating my old a$$ off in the damn desert, just so you could see if I could umpire around 40 plates a year, work a 4-man crew all season, sit around hotels drinking Mai-tai's till game time, and get vacations during my season? Bring Bruce Froemming with you, not me. My umpire school style boot camp session days are way behind me. Just sign my fat butt up for the show.
You gotta admit, how hard is it to be better than Bob Engel, or Fred Brocklander, a couple of scabs? I never said I was freakin' Doug Harvey, did I? I said some umpires, not the best ones. Lighten up a bit there, sport.
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And then I joined a different association for last season, which I wouldn't want anybody watching me work in, since it was small diamond ball mostly. I made this move so I could umpire some of my nephew's LL games last season, which I was able to do. That was my entire rationale for changing groups.
At the time you offered to come video me, there were no games being played, and none on the foreseeable horizon.
HEY, IF YOU ALLOWED PM'S I WOULDN'T HAVE TO RESORT TO POSTING PUBLICLY. YOU ARE A VERY INSULTING PERSON, AND YOU REALLY HURT MY FEELINGS LAST YEAR, AND NOW YOU KEEP SAYING LIES, IN THAT I TRIED TO GET OUT OF YOU COMING TO MY GAMES, WHICH IS BULLSH*T!