First Game Experience

[Toadman15241]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Since the internet umpiring commnity has lowered the bar for what it means to be an umpire I give you the following:

And since I had not only already worked for 10 years (that is in internet umpire years) I had been exposed to mechanics and rules extensively.

Tim,

I agree with a lot of what you are saying here. You can have "umpired" for a lot longer than you have been an "umpire." The only thing I would add is that this is not an internet phenomena. A lot of guys I work with have been "umpiring" for 30 years but still think the ball is dead on an IFF, and they don't even know these forums exist. For the most part, those that post on these forums are much more realistic about umpiring than those that don't use these forums as a learning tool. Of course we have a Lance here and there, but you are going to have that anywhere.

John