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Originally Posted by bkbjones
One of our top coaches in the Seattle area is wheelchair bound and has been for years. He is in an electric wheelchair. We have had what I wouldn't even term close calls, but maybe in his general area. He coaches third occasionally, and neither I nor most of the other umpires up here would think of not allowing Eric on the field. (There are probably a couple who wouldn't allow him out there, and that is easily fixed: don't assign that umpire to any of Eric's games.)
Plus he's a nice guy most of the time, always respects umpires, and has no reservations about requesting time to chat with an umpire who may have blown a call due to lack of hustle or otherwise sleeping on the job.
Eric's team is the Absolute Blast, and he is the organizer of our Labor Day exposure tournament. Many times, we have used his tournament to evaluate some of our younger/newer umpires at a higher level -- and Eric has always been wonderful about letting us do that.
I'm 100% certain that if Eric's condition deteriorates he will be off the field before we can even broach the subject.
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Need to be careful about the amount of information you post on here that someone else might not appreciate. Using just the info you provided in the post, I can tell you Eric's last name, his address, phone number, email address, some girls who played for him(at least two of which are playing for the U of W)...etc. It could be possible that this is information, nice guy or not, he wouldn't want shared. JMO.