I'm getting to buy a pair of pants..which ones?

[Mr Ray]

Originally Posted by LMan

Another newcomer with a stick in his ***. Welcome!

Your question is debated.....oh, about 1-2x a month...usually whenever a Smitty tries to argue that there's really a Jocko Conlan lurking under all the jeans, workboots, and flannel shirt behind the plate.

Dress better, and they won't snicker about you behind your back so often. Professions/avocations that require a dress code mean that if you don't follow that code, observers decide you aren't very good. After all, if you don't care enough to dress well, then how can you care enough to know the rules or manage a game? You think people take the time to tell themselves, "oh, now this guy...he looks like a slob, but he's the one-in-a-thousand 'slob who really knows his umpiring stuff'?

Do what you want (and you will), but this perception is your choice. Don't try to make anyone feel sorry that they 'profiled' you based on your Dickies or pole-climbing boots.

IIRC.. Nowhere did I advocate wearing " jeans, workboots, dickies or pole-climbing boots". It's an invention of your sick, rude and disgusting imagination.

[umpduck11]

Originally Posted by Mr Ray

IIRC.. Nowhere did I advocate wearing " jeans, workboots, dickies or pole-climbing boots". It's an invention of your sick, rude and disgusting imagination.

Not to mention elitist........

[bossman72]

Originally Posted by Mr Ray

IIRC.. Nowhere did I advocate wearing " jeans, workboots, dickies or pole-climbing boots". It's an invention of your sick, rude and disgusting imagination.

Ease up chief... His post didn't seem to warrant that response, so don't get your panties in a knot...

[Mr Ray]

actually the thread was done as far as I was concerned. However, four more of you "guys" piled on. Maybe it's not my panties that are in a bunch. I could care less actually. You give yourselves WAAAAAY too much credit.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Mr Ray

actually the thread was done as far as I was concerned. However, four more of you "guys" piled on. Maybe it's not my panties that are in a bunch. I could care less actually. You give yourselves WAAAAAY too much credit.

Since someone called JonathanSCS started this thread, you don't get to determine when the thread is done.

Ray, the bottom line is this: If you want to be respected as an umpire, you need to dress sharp as a tack, and use the commonly accepted tools of the trade. If you look sloppy, or "smittyish," you will automatcally get lumped in with their ilk.

You keep fighting the advice you were given, as if you disbelieve all the people telling you this. You had asked for opinions, then you didn't like the opinions you got, so now it's still open season on Mr. Ray until further notice.

[DG]

I, and some others, gave good advice - wear an inside protector. Nothing more or less than your evaluator will give you, if you can get one to come out and watch after you tell him you use a raft. If you feel you need the extra protection the raft provides your evaluator will tell you to pick another sport.

Take a college age fast ball off your mask, or off your chest protector, or your bicep in the first inning of a double header and then complete both games and then you can come back and criticize the rest of us for being elitist (ie not rafters). A college catcher (I could say pitcher but it was the catcher that did not get a glove on the ball) broke my left pinky finger in the first inning of the first game I worked in 2005 and I worked two games that day, and I finally went to the doctor 2 days later. If I had a raft I would not have been hurt, and I would not have been working those games either.

And you asked, and received, the feedback you desired. You just don't like the answer.

[Tim C]

Ray noted:

"I could care less . . . "

That does not make sense. The correct cliche is: "I couldn't care less."

But I guess that would be elitist if I pointed that out.

Regards,

[Mr Ray]

Originally Posted by Tim C

Ray noted:

"I could care less . . . "

That does not make sense. The correct cliche is: "I couldn't care less."

But I guess that would be elitist if I pointed that out.

Regards,

Your punctuation is incorrect.
BTW the correct definition of elitist = prick

[Tim C]

. . . articulate Ray-Ray . . .

You have now proven yourself for what you are . . .

You are certainly thinned skinned . . . and my punctuation is perfect for my writing style . . . but you wouldn't get that . . . why? . . . because it is elitist.

We now have a new base umpire for my all time internet umpire crew.

Regards,

[briancurtin]

Originally Posted by Mr Ray

Your punctuation is incorrect.
BTW the correct definition of elitist = prick

what does that have to do with you getting the cliche wrong?