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Originally Posted by Ump153
Completely understand. Still, they won't make it in professional umpiring. That's my point, and despite your emotional attachment to your argument, it is a fact.
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No, I believe the point you were making is that you don't like fat people very much, and think less of them as people than you do skinny, scrawny, semi-anorexic people, or people with Greek god-like physiques.
"Your attemp to include the obese with the truly disabled is sad"
"The days of Froemming fatasses are over. Just a fact of life."
and this fallacial assessment:
"The perception of both the public and MLB is that fat, grossly obese umpires look terrible, lazy and less competent that those with athletic frames."
That might be MLB's perception because they have an image to uphold. That's perfectly understandable. The public, however, is used to seeing fat umpires because the population in general is overweight to begin with, and many local amateur umpires, and some of the best umpires in MLB history were fat guys. And Froemming was
far from grossly obese. Eric Gregg, yes, but Bruce was just a chubby guy. He could stomp your a$$ in a 50 yard dash any day of the week when he was in his 40's, fat and all. Skinny people would challenge him, and he would whoop them every time.
I'm a big guy. Not a big tub of goo, but stocky and muscular to go along with my pot belly. I get around the field as good as any skinny young umpire I've ever seen. I always beat the BR into the infield from A, beat the BR to third on a naked triple from A, and when I go out from A, I am standing at home plate before the BR gets to 3rd base. I have no problem getting around, and anybody's perception of me is irrelevant. They see me run my a$s off, and I never hear about how fat I am, just "good hustle, Blue."