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I treat umpiring like it's very important to me and to the game for me to be as good at it as possible. I'll go to school for that and for the love of the game and the craft, irrespective of where it would lead. Just getting the first-hand opinions about how things should be done imbues you with a sense of mastery that you didn't have when camp began.
And I have always felt that way about it, because I got into it way too late to have any aspirations beyond the local college level. I can say unequivocally that if I had any inkling at all that it would be this well suited to me and this much fun for me, I would have gotten into it many years ago, but still without the allusion of a major league gig. In the 80s and early 90s, I hung around quite a few NL umpires, and I enjoyed the hell out of the stories and perspectives and other fascinating aspects of umpiring, but I had no idea it would be this enjoyable.
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