[SanDiegoSteve]

I've been overweight for quite some time now, and I never had any trouble beating any BR, no matter how much of a jackrabbit, to third base on a naked triple starting in A. On the plate, I've never had any trouble beating any BR to the 2nd base cutout when a partner went out on a fly ball. And then beat them to third if they go for 3.

There are plenty of overweight umpires who can umpire circles around their slimmer brethren. It's much to do with knowing how to take drop steps, take superior angles to get to plays, knowing the game well, and a little thing called hustle. I've seen lots of lazy skinny umpires who hardly move at all, and plenty of big husky fellas that get around pretty damn good.

Fat bashing is popular for people with nothing better to do (example: post #1). Those with no weight problem seem to think they have all the answers. Just stop eating. Bullsh!t. If that's all it took, then it would be easy and everyone would be skinny (how boring if we were all clones!).

There are many medical reasons for retaining weight. My wife is overweight, but she eats like a bird. She has a bad knee which prevents her from any heavy exercise, but she isn't big because she eats too much, or eats the wrong food. Both of us are diabetic, which makes it doubly hard to lose the weight we already had when diagnosed.

Sure, there are plenty of cases of people that just sit around eating like Sherman Klump, but for every one of those, there are people (like my wife and myself) who have medical conditions which lead to weight problems.