A Modest Proposal

[cowbyfan1]

I have to agree with Garth with pretty much everything he said. I email Carl over a year ago about writing for the site and got zero response. Maybe just as well. I did not enjoy english classes at all in school so my writings would probably be a nightmare (tho I would have not problem if the editor cleaned them up) as far as grammatical errors.

I totally agree with the video clips part. They are the best tools as we can really see the play. I can read and read and reread but if I see it, it sinks in better. Things like seeing whatever it was that Stanton did to balk would be great to see and discuss (still not sure I have seen a good replay of what he did). Also if the play is just in writing, sometimes there is not enough info to make a correct call.

The news side of it would be nice to see again. We had some stories in my area that touched on umpire abuse on the TV news. My baseball association President even was on the news talking about it. Could have been something good for the site here. I think there would have to be a team of people working to make this worth while. To be able to find those individual articles in local newspapers can be hard to find anbd very time consuming.

Maybe not for the paid site but updated links to local associations to umpire to join would be good.