Arrogance and Being "Bigger than the Game"

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by aceholleran

The only caveat: He's intelligent.

Ace

Care to call up my history professor and tell him that And as always Ace, wonderful verbiage.

On a serious note, thanks to all responders: I will do some self reflection this fall and see if any of this other stuff may be true about my game. Maybe I'll even find somebody to tape me work.

Back to the books on this rainy day...

[Nigel Tufnel]

A couple things to remember.
Anything like Varsity HS or Connie Mack/Legion ball, these guys will test your patience.
Anything below, coaches usually are not paid to manage and their lack of rules and knowledge of the game will surface...shrug those things off and go enjoy a cold one...

No one said that this was going to be easy...keep working hard on the diamond and get that degree for backup...

[tcarilli]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

...I will do some self reflection this fall and see if any of this other stuff may be true about my game...

Better words could not have been written for all of us. All criticisms should be, at least initially, treated as having some truth value. If after reflection (the amount of which has a great deal of variation) one decides that the criticism is not valid, then dismiss it. Umpires (in fact anyone) do themselves great harm by immediately dismissing criticism out of hand. And even worse by starting a response with "yeah, but..." Yeah butters rarely advance very rapidly or very far.