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Old Sat Aug 18, 2007, 07:10pm
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Originally Posted by ChucktownBlue
Seem to have to attend? Either they do or they don't. Might be a regional requirement. Most will have attended a Regional clinic, but obviously, if that's how the decisions are being made, at a clinic, the results speak for themselves.
I offer the information because your description was "sight unseen". For our guys U.P. here it is not that way.

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Originally Posted by ChucktownBlue
So if such an umpire did this, was a nice enough guy and kissed enough butt, he may get an assignment? I think I already addressed that. It's called the good-ole-boy program. And that's the problem. They get to know someone outside the lines, which has nothing to do with on-field ability. And there are no interviews or required visits or on-site evaluations to receive the assignment. Districts submit recommendations. State directors sign off it, and submit "resumes" to Regional HQ, who make the calls.
Well, I know of no employers that hire without some sort of interview. Knowing a person on a personal level accompanied with the mandatory (it seems) attendance at a clinic is not entirely outside the lines, regardless of the amount of individual or collective flattery required.

The highlighted portion of your post just doesn't seem to be correct within the Central Region, although you seem to be implying such in your omniscient post on this subject.
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