Emporer of Umpire Empire Empirically Incorrect ?

[Interested Ump]

Originally Posted by ManInBlue

There was I time when you could buy a new car for $2000 and fill it up with gas for $2.00. This ain't a fairy tale. He's not talking about "once upon a time."

My comment was a reflection not a statement of the times. Well, I suppose it was considering that I would accept that Wal=Mart then and now are two different service organizations.

This was not meant to insult Walmart employees. He could have said McDonald's, Burger King, K-Mart...

But he did not. How do you know what the intention was of the Wal-Mart comment? I don't.

The point is that you don't have to give a damn about WalMart to work there. That's why you need the next sentence in the quote - He said basically -WalMart employees don't have to care about Walmart but umpires should care about baseball.

What's so freaking hard about that?

Nothing, why do you suppose I would insist otherwise? Might I suggest that you polish off your paranormal powers, the ones you used to see into the mind of the Author of the OP, and look clearly into mine.

There is a difference in doing it FOR the money and doing it because you love the game, etc. Getting paid is a bonus. Yes, the money helps. And yes I'll do a $50 game before I do a $35 game.

Do you love the money or the level of play? if the level of play, then you would have been more accurate to state, "I will do a HS game before an 11yo game" or some such.

But I'm not on the field for the money. I'm on the field because I want to be on the field and b/c I love baseball. The money being "necessary" and officiating for the money are too different concepts.

Not that I expect you to grasp the difference.

I take no pay, I grasp it firmly.