[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by canadaump6

You know it's pretty ironic that you lecture me on respect after you ignorantly dismiss the study of Psychology, refer to my mother by the wrong title, and name yourself after a Major League umpire at the other forum.

Hey look sonny boy, get a few things straight:

I don't ignorantly dismiss the study of psychology, just your use of it in your example. Just because it is written about in books does not make it true. To say that corporal punishment is not effective is false, so don't presume that I am ignorant about anything. That is far from the truth.

I don't give a crap what you think about what I used to describe what you probably call your mother. When you were a little boy, did you call her "mother?" I doubt it, unless you're one of those pansy boys that wear short pants and knee socks to school. I was not aware that you didn't like "mommy." That is a common way little boys refer to their mothers, and you haven't grown up as of yet, so I figured that's what you call her. My bad.

And listen up chump, I did not name myself after anyone. I was given the nickname of "Augie Donatelli" by my long-time assignor who has pimples on his a$$ that are older than you, so I earned that nickname. He gave it to me out of respect after seeing me umpire. He recognized that I was a no-nonsense, take charge type of umpire, in the tradition of August Donatelli, who also took no crap off anyone. In fact, most people in the association called me Augie, and some of the newer ones thought that it was my name until told differently. I didn't name myself anything.

I have tremendous respect for the memory of Donatelli, unlike you, who have no respect for Ron Luciano's fine career, which you could only dream of having.

Dead or alive, Luciano did some things that are an embarrassment to umpires today. He had plenty of opportunity to defend himself during his feuds with the great Earl Weaver.

I don't know of one single umpire who feels embarrassed by anything Ron Luciano did. And what is so great about Earl Weaver? He was a friggin' manager! A rat. A c*ck s*cker. The bane of all AL umpires. You sound more like a rat than an umpire. Which is it, boy? And what do you mean "defend himself?" WTF is that supposed to mean? Earl would act up, Ron would toss him. That's baseball. It is part of baseball's charm. The Luciano/Weaver stories are priceless, funny episodes. Didn't you enjoy reading about them? I suppose you took Weaver's side, huh? Rodent.

Whether he's dead or alive does not change the fact that he was terrible as an umpire. From reading two of his books, I struggle to recall him mentioning anything positive about himself as an umpire. Now I do understand that he worked at a time when umpires were a part of the show like the players, but that still doesn't excuse the unprofessional things he did IMO.

Yeah, I remember reading how he dropped trou at the backstop and put his jock on outside his underwear in front of a group of little girls. No, wait a minute...that was you!

You are in way over your head battling with me, sonny britches.