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Originally Posted by xtreamump
Thank You, I think that I can learn alot from this Forum. I have to get used to the Idea of talking Softball to an unknown person behind a username. I can tell that you guys know the game. I will get used to it.
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Just keep an open mind, and be willing to listen to the criticism you will get here. I guarantee you, you will get plenty of it, but it's not meant to tear you down as an umpire, it's meant to build you up.
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Originally Posted by umpire12
ive been a bit thin skinned myself in the past, especially when ive been proven wrong. emotion and intent can easily me misinterpreted when being read on a computer screen.. bottom line is , these guys that you may percieve, and it is a perception, as bullies know what they are talking about and this is the best forum to get the right answer to any softball umpiring question. sometimes you just have to eat a piece of humble pie
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I agree. When I first came here, there were a couple of posters on here (whose names I won't mention) who, I thought, were trying to tear me down. I kept thinking, "man, who the eff are these guys, and why are they riding me like this? I'm not a bad umpire, I swear!"
Then I really listened to what they had to say, and I learned a whole hell of a lot more than I ever imagined. It raised my game a LOT, and I even had one of my fellow umpires comment to me about it last week. She said that right between 2007 and 2008 (note that I joined in 2007), it was like night and day, like a light bulb had gone off in my head.
So as I always say, "you can't build something up without first tearing it down." I live by those words, and, as an umpire, they have served me well.