Swinging and getting Hit

[GarthB]

Originally posted by Kaliix
Tee,
While I understand where you are coming from, your response is melodramatic.

Don't like the question, just don't read any further and waste your time. (snip)

Ignore the post and move on, like everyone else here.

It doesn't work. It's been tried on other boards, and it doesn't work.

Many of us were encouraged, even solicted to post to this site at it's inception because it was not a LL site and it was not a coaches' site. We had seen other sites transform from big boy umpiring sites to LL umpiring and coaches sites. When we ignored the LL and coaches posts they just multiplied to the point that one couldn't see past the clutter. It wasn' worth going there anymore to read the first paragraph of 75% of the threads and to find they didn't apply to umpiring baseball above T-ball or LL.

Umpire.org even added a "small diamond" page at their site to give those folks a place to go and to reduce the clutter at the other pages. Didn't work. LL posts still abound on all the other pages instead of the small diamond page.

Sleazeteamz(c) has a coaches site. You'd never know it.

I haven't posted at either board for four years or more.

Now, just as the Europeans couldn't be stopped from heading westward across the plains, the mountains and to the pacific, the drift of LL and coaching to Officialforum has increased and resembles the early stages of the take overs at the other boards.

I don't think we're being elitst. It just seems to some of us that with all the boards on the internet, one could escape being taken over by LL level posts.