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Originally posted by Carl Childress
You and I (as well as Blaine) know that Roland's suggestion is clearly not something an untrained, rookie umpire would adopt. The entire text of the article is slanted toward advanced training, advanced use of every tool that might be available.

How does the untrained, rookie umpire know that this is not something that he should adopt?

Originally posted by Carl Childress
As a trainer for about 40 years, I've called with hundreds of "true" rookies, guys who were walking out on the diamond for the first time as an umpire. In all those years, I never had a beginner try such a ploy.

What does this have to do with an untrained umpire. You obviously trained him before his first game to know not to do this. But the untrained umpire who comes to Officiating.com will probally believe anything he comes across.

Originally posted by Carl Childress
And don't for a moment believe that nonsense about "I was gonna subscribe but because of this article I won't." That's a big crock of something Roland uses lots of on his farm. "Already one person said...." The Forum has around a hundred regular members, some of whom are double-dippers (same person, two handles).

All I am saying is if you rejected Rollies article, which you admit does not contain good advise, you may have had one more suscriber, and you would only have to pay Rollie for 5 articles this week instead of 6. And only one person posted that they were not going to suscribe, he is not posting the same message mutiple times under different names.

Originally posted by Carl Childress
We're not going to run a magazine with thousands of subscribers all over the world just to please one percent of the people who post on an umpire message board.

Tee knows about internet umpires. He are one. So am I. But we who post are just a tiny drop in the bucket.

Think about it, how many of your suscribers are not internet umpires? Internet umpires are a very small percentage of all umpires. But I would guess that internet umpires make up a high percentage of Officiating.com suscribers.