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Old Mon Sep 07, 2009, 07:11pm
Rich Ives Rich Ives is offline
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
Of course not, but I don't think that's the issue here.

The issue is a clean-shaven, egotistical, imobile hack vs. a bearded, egotistical, immobile hack.
The issue as I've read along seems to be that "improper grooming" [insert personal definition here] is in and of itself reason to disqualify an umpire.

Good thing that it doesn't apply to players - we'd have missed out on a LOT of really good ones.
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