What would be your call?

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Was this as a contracted employee of MiLB, or as a fill-in?

I ask, because I have worked as a fill in for sick and injured umpires at some MiLB games, but I would never claim to be a MiLB umpire. There is, it seems to me, to be quite a difference between contracted, full time MiLB umpires and those of us who have "umpired games in the past."

I don't recall claiming to be a MiLB umpire. MiLB, NCAA, ASA, NSA, FED, and PONY are leagues and associations that I have umpired for.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

I don't recall claiming to be a MiLB umpire. MiLB, NCAA, ASA, NSA, FED, and PONY are leagues and associations that I have umpired for.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Garth B.
NCAA/ASCAP/BMI/NAACP

[Chris_Hickman]

Garth B.
NCAA/ASCAP/BMI/NAACP

NAACP....... Can you get me Jesse Jackson's autograph?


Chris Hickman
MLB #15**









** I went to an Angels game last year and I sat in seat #15

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Garth B.
NCAA/ASCAP/BMI/NAACP

Didn't you do some games for the ACLU a while back?

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Didn't you do some games for the ACLU a while back?

No, that was the AAGL.

[jimpiano]

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

I don't recall claiming to be a MiLB umpire. MiLB, NCAA, ASA, NSA, FED, and PONY are leagues and associations that I have umpired for.

What was your point in relation to the OP?

[jimpiano]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

What was your point in relation to the OP?

I apologize. I meant this message for Garth and even that was inappropriate.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

I apologize. I meant this message for Garth and even that was inappropriate.

There is a "delete post" feature that would have taken care of it, with no embarassing apology necessary.

[umpduck11]

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[umpduck11]

Originally Posted by SAump

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Looks like as duck, and types like a duck.

It must be a duck............

[canadaump6]

Originally Posted by SAump

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Looks like as duck, and types like a duck.

Looks more like a troll to me.

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

What was your point in relation to the OP?

It was a reply to GarthB's question when I did respond to the OP. Scroll back.

[UmpLarryJohnson]

Originally Posted by MichaelVA2000

It was a reply to GarthB's question when I did respond to the OP. Scroll back.

mr Garth is telling you its looks silly to put milb in your sig if you airent really one but we guess you are too dense to see that or are bein that way on purpose. i got a blockbuster card in my wallet but dont put it in my sig

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by UmpLarryJohnson

mr Garth is telling you its looks silly to put milb in your sig if you airent really one but we guess you are too dense to see that or are bein that way on purpose. i got a blockbuster card in my wallet but dont put it in my sig

So by this logic, if you have worked high school baseball, but don't always work high school baseball, you have no right to put that in your signature?

Maybe I'm dense, but if I had the opportunity to work as a fill-in umpire in the minor leagues, and still do it when called upon, that would certainly qualify me to include it in my signature.

Your blockbuster card still gets you movies, doesn't it? Your signature can reflect the fact that you are a movie renter if you so choose.

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Maybe I'm dense, but if I had the opportunity to work as a fill-in umpire in the minor leagues, and still do it when called upon, that would certainly qualify me to include it in my signature.

Taht might be the way you look at it, Steve. Fortunately, you don't appear to be in the majority.

A Minor League umpire has graduated as an honor grad from proschool, has additional training at PBUC, was selected by PBUC for a job and is under contract to Minor League Baseball. If you haven't gone through this, you are not a minor league umpire.

A fill-in is a fill-in.

Every poster on this board with fill-in experience, except possibly one, has too much respect for the real MiLB umpires to claim membership in that fraternity.

Let's face, the poster in question lists MiLB in an attempt to steal a little prestige from the unknowing. If he weren't, he'd identify himself truthfully, "MiLB Fill-in",