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Originally Posted by Publius
Garth, YOU value individual initiative over group control. So do I. Our society certainly does not. Individual initiative only gets you in the door as a sports official now. Once you're in the room, group control is the model. You can't even get work now if you aren't part of "the group". The top goal of every association I've ever been in, from NCAA on down, has been not excellence, but uniformity. Guys who are average but conform get more and better games than guys who are good but nonconformist.
If individual initiative were so valued, there would be no "one right way" to reach the top (as in mandatory attendance at pro school for WUA umpires). We'd be graded solely on outcomes, not on methods.
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Pubes, you are right on which is why Interested Ump set an org in a completely different fashion. Want to wear white shirts, wear white shirts. Want to tell the "A" slot to GTH, do so.
But your blowing smoke into the wind because umpires
want conformity, they don't want performance related development. Look at this place, a perfect example of a majority of suckups who want to conform. "Put soandso on your Ignore List"; "blue shirts, black bags, etc."; on and on.
Umpires are blue collar guys, the last thing they want is white collar competitiveness. They want to get ahead in umpiring by smoozing the leaders, dumping brewskis with the Old Guard after the game. Damn near everyone here is in the upper 40s, 50s or older. Think they want to talk about mobility issues? Hell no, what they want is to fanasize how they can outrun B Deion Sanders to 2nd base from PU.
