Position at home

[Jim Porter]

Originally posted by Ranger
Carl,

Why do you and Jim want to talk about "attacks" with me? That is clearly not me. I do not understand and it doesn't even seem relevant. Did I say anything about a secret society?

Is this a umpire forum or not? I have consistently wanted to talk about umpiring and you guys only seem to want to pry personal information from people. If I make a post about mechanics and you want to zero in on one small statement that I made about me observing umpires you are missing the point. If I am wrong about anything substantive you can disagree. If I think this board is encouraging umpires to get their nose right down on a tag play at home I should at least mention it. You should mention it! I should not fear reprisals that belittle me because I have not given you my name.

Please stop being distracted by who I am. It is totally unimportant. Please forget anything I ever said about who I am and what I do. I am a nothing to you. At this point in time you need to trust and have some faith.

When Jim made that statement likening you to a hornets nest I thought it was a joke.

I am not your enemy. Please keep the hornets in the nest.

I'm not sure what you mean, Ranger. I didn't talk about attacks at all. I didn't mention anything about a hornet's nest.

I'm just trying to get you to understand that too many people have posed as D1 umpires and tried to play games with us. Unfortunately, without knowing your identity, you fall into that category. You will be viewed as an anonymous poster here to do nothing but play games with us. I'm not trying to insult you or hurt you, and I didn't make it this way. Others have spoiled the fun for you, not me.

Because of the two year's worth of games with anonymous posters, I can't get over this identity problem with you. I just can't. I'm sorry.

When welfare began, people used it legitimately. After years of abuse, people lost out. The rules changed to keep the abuse from happening. That's a good analogy to what you're experiencing.

When unemployment insurance began, no one abused that system. But after years of abuse, the rules changed and everyone lost out. That's another good analogy to what you're experiencing.

Too many people abused the privilege of anonymous posting on these boards. I'm afraid that means we have to view your presence here as suspect. I'm sorry for that, but it's not my doing.

Just e-mail one of us. It won't hurt and we will keep your identity secret and we will honor your privacy. The posters here will take our word for it if we say you are legitimate. We're trying to help you, not hurt you.