"Benefit of the Doubt"--when is it applicable?

[senior]

We just finished Districts, and the great learning opportunities that were presented were taken advantage of by this old duffer.
I got a chance to work with older umpires, (at 66, this doesn't happen very often), and younger ones, (gung ho and very dedicated), and wouldn't pass up the chance to do this
again, at any time.
Some were "benefit of the doubt" types, some were the "I gotta see it" types, some were the "by the book" types. One particular trait was evident in all of them, and that was the fact that they were doing their best.
I don't know if I could catagorize myself in any fashion, except to say that I am a better umpire for having worked with them, and perhaps will fashion my future games with the thought of incorporating different tangibles into my game regimen. I am pleased to have had the chance to observe and work with so many really good umpires.