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Originally Posted by RichMSN
When it's you against the world, back the world.
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I appreciate this forum a lot. There's a lot of experienced umps that have a lot of good things to share. Good insights, and it's interesting reading the different approaches to game management situations. It's a fun board and quite frankly the only one I go to aside from my association.
I also recognize a thread like this one for what it's worth. After post 6 or 7 it has no real value. I have the majority of the posts and I see it for what it is.
I say this because i recognize this board for what it is and it's not for heavy philosophical stuff, But:
To my point and your post.
It's been nagging at me since I read it. In the context of this thread it means nothing to me, but in the context of life it means alot and IMO is a very foolish motto to live by and I feel compelled to share
When my oldest son was 12 yrs old he was diagnosed with a fatal liver disease, no cure.
We went to many many doctors and they all gave the same diagnosis, including specialists at Mayo and Childrens memorial in Chicago. The entire medical world, which at that time certainly seemed like the whole world to us was seemingly against us and had a united front. Fatal and no cure.
If we lived by the above motto we would have enrolled him in hospice and had his funeral before his 13th birthday.
Instead of accepting the worlds point of view we prayed and sought direction for a cure.
My son turned 20 last Friday and is as healthy as a horse, not the ones Garth's been beating lately but a healthy one.
Anyway, aside from this forum, the world ain't always right. History is chalk full of individuals who questioned the status quo and bucked the system on many very important issues and were proved to be right despite what the world thought of them at the time.
Sorry for the heavy post.
That quote just bugged the cr@p out of me.