what is "umpiring" becoming.....

[His High Holiness]

Originally posted by Rog
If you called a licensed electrician to your home to rewire your home, they would expect to do the job according to current standards and/or codes. As would the licensing bureau and insurance industry.
Would you really want this person to modfy the standards/codes just because you are paying the bill?

I cannot think of a reason that I would want my house wired differently from the code. But if I could think of a reason, I would want the electrician to do it because I was the one paying the bill.

And if he would not? Then I would fire him and find someone who would do what I want. Incorrect wiring can have fatal consequences so it is a poor analogy to umpiring. Bad umpiring has no consequences that a rational person would worry about. (Then again, who said coaches and parents were rational. They can be more dangerous than bad wiring.!) However, like the electrician above, I would fire the umpire that did not call the set of rules that I wanted. The only reason that I might be forced to live with the umpire is that there is a shortage of umpires. Electricians, on the other hand, are not problem.

Peter