True Confessions - Your Analysis and Eval?

[David B]

I don't think I've laughed out loud at a post in a long time.

Everyone knows that Peter calls in a very unusual environment, (he's in Washington DC area enough said)./
I have to admit, if I had to worry about how I was going to call a game and which set of rules that I was going to ignore today but I have to call in my game tomorrow, that I would just give it up.

I have a feeling that Mr Osborne may not be the umpire that he makes himself out to be in print.

I don't say that in spite, I just know that it's impossible to be a good umpire without calling the same way day in and out. There would be no consistency!

Peter may be able to get away with it because he's called in that area for quite some time and sadly he may be one of the better umpires in that area.

I would only suggest that speaks very badly of the rest of the umpires that work in his association.

I get the point of his post, but it just doesnt' work that way in the rest of the real world of umpiring. At least not in the areas that I have worked.

Thanks
David

Originally posted by His High Holiness

I know the right way. I learned a long time ago what the right and wrong ways are, and I adjust myself to each game that I work depending on the situation and depending on who I am working for. That is one of the characteristics of a good umpire. (I have been to pro school.) My assignor assigns NCAA Division I ball. It doesn't get any higher than that unless you have pro intentions. At 50, I am beyond that.

Peter [/B]