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Originally Posted by Tim C
I think that Evans's feelings are quite interesting about a number of things:
1) He feels that the only people that can teach umpiring are professional umpires. In fact at all his clinics, classes and schools he makes fun of local trainers and calls them "Charlies" . . . all his instructor use the term freely also.
2) On more than one occasion Evans has intoned that "internet umpires" are a bunch of guys that cannot umpire and are basically "keyboard" umpires that couldn't work real games.
3) He feels that umpires not trained by professional umpires are hurting the game of baseball and the future of umpiring.
Of course there is no conflict of interest in his position.
Regards,
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I've seen all three (from your list) in person.
It's why I've gone to one weekend clinic (where I certainly don't feel I got my money's worth, but that's really the fault of the association setting the price too high) and haven't gone back. I'm sure the experience would be quite different over a week or 5 weeks, but I'll probably never find that out. Well, maybe some day. My pro aspirations are zero -- I couldn't afford the pay cut.