General Instructions: Generally Ignored

[JJ]

I for one will be glad when we can get on the field and do our job. I never wanted to be a lawyer, so I don't engage in the "debates" that I read here - I just read them. Occasionally, I add a thought from my point of view. No insults, no name-calling, no "I'm right and you're wrong". Ours is an inexact science. The more information we can gather from books, camps, interps, umpires, and history, the better we should be able to do our job. As far as I'm concerned, very little of umpiring is set in stone. Mechanics are flexible - so, based on training and experimentation, we find what works for us and try to perfect it. We all use different methods of enforcing many of the rules (get into the call, listen to a coach or argue, etc, etc, etc.). Of course, the rules for the most part are not very flexible. So I'll just stumble along, doing the best I can with what I've got, taking this whole board with a grain of salt...

Bet I'm called a dufus for calling these kind of threads silly -