New MLB umpire web site

[bigblue8]

I just found a new website by mlb umpire Rob Drake. It looks interesting. The season hasn't started, but it looks like it might be good when it does. It has good pictures, too.
www.theumpirelife.com

BigBlue8

[DonInKansas]

Just looks like a blog to me. May make for decent stories when the season starts; I could care less about him playing golf.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by DonInKansas

Just looks like a blog to me. May make for decent stories when the season starts; I could care less about him playing golf.

Some pretty cool pictures though.

[umpcop]

Rob Drake is a very good umpire in my opinion , but he is not a MLB umpire. He is a PCL umpire who has umpired several hundred MLB games, but he is not on the MLB staff.

[bigblue8]

this is a website that tells you every person that has umpired in the big leagues and how many games they have. Rob has 911. He had more thann some of the guys on the full time staff. Must be becuase of all the new guys hired when they tried to strike. I don't think he has worked in the PCL in a few years though.
Bigblue8
www.retrosheet.org

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by bigblue8

this is a website that tells you every person that has umpired in the big leagues and how many games they have. Rob has 911. He had more thann some of the guys on the full time staff. Must be becuase of all the new guys hired when they tried to strike. I don't think he has worked in the PCL in a few years though.
Bigblue8
www.retrosheet.org

Unless something has changed in the past few days, Rob is not a full time MLB umpire. His full time assignment is listed as the Triple A PCL, but like Guccione and some others, he works far more ML games as a replacement than he does MiLB games. If I'm not mistaken, Gucce had more plate games at the ML level than most "full time" ML umpires.