Blue Collar Umpires; Where Are The White Collared Execs?

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Originally Posted by GarthB

Sorry, I didn't read the original post. The author is on my ignore list.

Blue collar mentality at full bloom. Anything that is new, original, or challenges you, you want no part of. Garthie, you are exactly what is wrong with amateur umpring. old Gurad ostriches.

I read your (SteveSanDiegoSups) post and it appeared he was saying "white collar" workers do not umpire as well as others.[/quote]

Generaaly, I would say he is correct. WC guys don't have the field time, financial interests or the drive to be better.

Or the ump orgs that will support them. Ring a cowbell? Moo?

Income has little to nothing to do with ump efficiiency. Can a case be made that upper income WC guys are smarter. Given fact. Better umpires? Given and historically NO. Potentially better umpires with their "superior" educations, WC backgrounds, all that jazz? Probably.

If brains were the best determinant, then we would need to recruit physicists. Brains are only a part. Probably not the most important part either.

Good umpires coem from experience, a drive to be as good as they can be. A self-motivation that begins with the refusal to be anything less than they can be.

Income has nothing, nothing to do with guts, determination, mental toughness and fight or, imo, most importantly, self-esteem and slef-judgment, self-appraisal.