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I don't believe officials are resentful about volunteer officials, that is your choice wether you want to receive compensation for your services or not. For the most part though the volunteer does NOT have the training and knowledge that the certified officials has. I said for the most part, there are exceptions, like mabey yourself, I dont know.
However I have seen many places were the volunteer umpire brags that "why are you spending all this money for someone that gets all technical and puts on a show, heck, I will do it for nothing or next to nothing". Well how would you like people doing this to you at your regular job. No there is not much difference.
99% of the time, the certified official will do a better job. You may be in that 1%. If so that is honorable on your part. Again I don't believe that officials dont want to help others out, wether their a person off the street or a volunteer. Any organization with worth their weight will help out volunteers with the hope that they will become members. However if you are out there taking work away from the certified official, Well, how would you treat that person if it pertained to your own job?
Being a volunteer is honorable but, I beleive there are too many people that want to take advantage of that, and get something for nothing. By the same token they will go out and buy $150 bats and not blink an eye, or argue about the price.
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