[Dakota]

Originally Posted by Rachel

Yeah, Thats what I thought. I just like to tell people my mistakes so perhaps others and I don't make them again.

That would be step 10....

The Twelve Steps of Umpires Anonymous:

1. We admitted we were powerless over softball —that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that becoming an ASA umpire could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our lives over to the care of the UIC.
4. Made a searching and fearless rules knowledge inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to the UIC, to ourselves, and to another umpire the exact nature of our umpiring mistakes.
6. Were entirely ready to have the UIC remove all these defects of umpiring.
7. Humbly asked the UIC to retrain us.
8. Made a list of all players and coaches who I should have ejected, and became willing to eject them all if necessary.
9. Improved game management skills for such people wherever possible, except when to do so would be detrimental to the game.
10. Continued to take personal rules, skills, and mechanics inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through study and experience to improve our umpiring skills.
12. Having had a softball awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all willing and able to become umpires.