Amateur vs. Pro

[JRutledge]

Originally posted by GarthB

Jeff:

You are confusing me. As I said I was responding directly to what you said. I even reprinted what you said for reference. What you are saying now is different regardless of your philosophy of "opinion".

I don't wish to start a pissing contest with you. I'm dropping the whole matter and writing it off as a communication malfunction. Best of luck this basektball season.

Why do you have to think this was a pissing contest? We are just sharing opinions amongst friendÂ’s right? Why does a simple disagreement have to be a hateful, contentions situation?

Garth, if you feel the statements are not true, I disagree. You can pay all the money to go to Umpire school, you still have to be picked to work pro ball. Many non-pro umpires never go to pro school or ever try to work any kind of pro ball. I know I have never attended pro school and I never will. It was not my goal. Now I am not saying I could do as good of a job as a Major League Umpire, I do not have that kind of dedication to the game. I only work about 50 games a season and when the summer hits I am basically finished with baseball until the next spring. But I know umpires that work hundreds of games and in my opinion would do a very good job if they ever decided to pursue that level or some strange reason they were picked to work the Major Leagues (which is not how the current system works).

Peace