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Originally Posted by canadaump6
I have a hard time understanding why anyone would put fitump on their ignore list. Are his comments too truthful to handle? Does his knowledge of the game intimidate you? Are his questions about rulings and plays to complicated for some to understand? I need answers.
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I'm not "in with the in crowd", that's Number One. Proof is the number of posts which are shot in a derogatory manner in my direction never get deleted. Mine, oh five, six every night?
I tell the truth and the truth is the truth calls into question every nuance of what the Old Hats don't want to talk about. They don't want to face change, change equates to "you have been doing this wrong". Which isn't at all the case but that's the knee jerk reaction.
I have played the game at high levels, few here have, I have called the games at high levels, many here have not nor will ever, I question everything because that is the only way to get better. The excuse "we have always done it this way" is an excuse.
The person I am most critical of is myself. I have had the opportunity to work with one person who many of these Old Hats don't like. He is a man who taught me the very meaning of questioning, he is a spectacular umpire, businessman and humanitarian. I leaned more from him in months than I have learned in the rest of my life.
So much of what you see is about the fact that he refuses to accept BS, taught me the same way and the BSers don't care for our honesty.