See Garth Benham's current interview with an umpire who does pro in the Northern League and also does games with his local association. He mentions three particular senior officials who helped him Chad says


I had the opportunity at our association's annual dinner at the end of last season to say thank you to #92 - Joe Valenza. My first season was 1992 I had the privilege to be working my very first Connie Mack game on the same field as Joe. We worked a number of times after that. I listened to Joe because he did college ball and was one of our "senior guys". His pre-game required a note pad for all the "special mechanics". I had the bases that first game and Joe told me to "always look like an umpire" no matter what you are doing.

Joe was very surprised when I stood up to thank him this past year. He didn't realize the positive effect he had on me.

Any stories of people who had an impact on your officiating career or those you've helped along the way? If I posted this a few months ago I don't think there were too many responses.

This is TOO wierd. Why does my screen show

f---f---f---ociation, but when I quote is shows
************ociation? Anybody? Is this a virus?

I want everyone to know I did not type that word. I typed "************ociation" and when I attempted to EDIT it the post appears as I originally posted it. If this is sabotage by someone purporting to be an umpire you are a sad individual. I have brought it to RightSports Administrator.

I've reported this in the feedback forum
 

Apparently, someone has inserted a script into the board that finds the characters a-s-s in any word and changes them to profanity. It caught me on the Softball board when I tried to use the word c-l-a-s-s-i-c. Until this is fixed, insert hyphens or underscores, or use the $ sign for the letter s in words with "a$$"

Possible Virus
 

I am now running virus software. What else is new. My apologies. Jim Simms/NYC

Guys - my fault on the board problem...

I was attempting to turn on the board's censoring function and instead caused it to replace the letters of censored words with another word that should be censored!!!

Mea culpa!!!

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Also, it is fixed now so that *** (a-s-s-) by itself is censored, but assign, assessment, etc. are not.

Brad,

I must admit that after I read your response - - I laughed for nearly 11 minutes. That has got to be the funniest blunder I've yet seen on the Internet. A classic!

I'm sure we all know it was an innocent mistake. But, by gum, it was one funny mistake.

I have to agree it's funny - nearly laughed my a$$ (did I spell that right?) off!

Hey, Brad....
 

You have my respect. You could have easily hidden behind some mysterious hacker or some such. Who would have known?

I agree the mistake was hilarious. You didn't just insert the f-word once, but three times. ROTFL.

When I posted the message where it first hit me, and I saw what it did to the word "classic," I wasn't laughing however. I was frantic. I quickly edited the message, and reposted it before anyone saw it (I hoped), and there it was again...three f's.

After I figured out there was an evil script at work, I searched the board for other examples (just to be sure it wasn't my computer only). Know what was really funny? Over on the Basketball board, and whole thread was full of f's, and all the posters went on with their discussion as if nothing was happening!! Now THAT was hilarous!