Hands part of the bat. Cubs vs Astros

[His High Holiness]

Originally posted by GarthB

I'm sure that's his story now.

Garth;

This is mean spirited on your part. Wobster is, by his own admission, a kiddie ball umpire. He is not holding himself up as an expert, unlike some here who have thousands of posts to their credit, claim to be experts, but say very little.

Consider this for a minute:

As a 2nd year umpire, you attend a NCAA D1 game as a fan only to discover that one of the umpires has not shown up. The other umpire asks you to fill in. You are totally unqualified but you do it because it will be great experience. Even though you get eaten alive, you survive the game, have fun, and got some great experience that few others of your skill would get a shot at.

Likewise, Wobster has been asked by Carl to write some articles because Carl is short of material. Wobster is the big winner here. He is forced to carefully think about his avocation if he is going to put it in print for the big boys. The big boys are eating his lunch but he is learning a ton about umpiring. Like the second year umpire suiting up for a D1 game, why shouldn't Wobster take the opportunity if someone is willing to hire him? We are not talking about brain surgery here since any mistakes that he makes will have no lasting significance in the big scheme of things.

Peter

[Edited by His High Holiness on Aug 30th, 2004 at 01:57 PM]