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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Maybe I'm dense, but if I had the opportunity to work as a fill-in umpire in the minor leagues, and still do it when called upon, that would certainly qualify me to include it in my signature.
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Taht might be the way you look at it, Steve. Fortunately, you don't appear to be in the majority.
A Minor League umpire has graduated as an honor grad from proschool, has additional training at PBUC, was selected by PBUC for a job and is under contract to Minor League Baseball. If you haven't gone through this, you are not a minor league umpire.
A fill-in is a fill-in.
Every poster on this board with fill-in experience, except possibly one, has too much respect for the real MiLB umpires to claim membership in that fraternity.
Let's face, the poster in question lists MiLB in an attempt to steal a little prestige from the unknowing. If he weren't, he'd identify himself truthfully, "MiLB Fill-in",