High school scabs

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

I have invested many more years and thousands of dollars to work for less than peanuts with absolutely no chance of working in the show.

Right, so you're not doing it for the sake of working MLB. You're doing it for some other reason, possibly for the love of it. Which, in the old fashioned (and best) sense, would make you an amateur (remember, "amo, amas, amat?"). Of course, it's possible to umpire both for the love of it and for the $$...

Amateurs, working for the love of it, have a rather different psychology, since they have another career and other parts of their lives to define themselves.