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Thu Oct 08, 2009, 10:32pm
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Admittedly, the fastball is the easiest pitch with which to make a high quality statement with. You really can't call a curve a high quality 'purpose' pitch, I mean, at 70 MPH??? Of course, I don't work 'high quality' amatuer ball.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 12:19am
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Hmmm...I would feel a bit less in danger if I knew the only thing being thrown at me was 70 MPH curves, which are much harder to aim at my exposed face then 85 MPH heaters. If your point was that a curve could be directed at a batter's noggin, I would agree.
Any ball I happen to work is fun, challenging and educational. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be working the games.
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Bob P. ----------------------- We are stewards of baseball. Our customers aren't schools or coaches or conferences. Our customer is the game itself.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 12:32am
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Everyone has a choice to work games or not. When the enjoyment is gone, maybe it's time to hang them up??
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Bob P. ----------------------- We are stewards of baseball. Our customers aren't schools or coaches or conferences. Our customer is the game itself.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 12:38am
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I am not incorrect. My experience is not the same as your's, but that does not make my observations incorrect or invalid. I have not done a survey, but I would venture to guess that nearly 80% of the officials I work with do so because they enjoy the game. Of the 100 or so that I work with, I only know of a few who work games JUST for the money. Your mileage may vary and you may indeed make a living out of officiating high quality amatuer ball. I don't.
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Bob P. ----------------------- We are stewards of baseball. Our customers aren't schools or coaches or conferences. Our customer is the game itself.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 12:44am
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Matthew 15:14, 1 Corinthians 1:23-25
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 12:52am
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Agreed, Steve. I too enjoy the pay, but when it gets too much like work, I'm done. I'm there because I want to be, not because I have to be.
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Bob P. ----------------------- We are stewards of baseball. Our customers aren't schools or coaches or conferences. Our customer is the game itself.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 07:06am
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Cheers, mb
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 10:38am
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That's okay. Bob and Steve will still be here at the end of the day. You, OTOH, I'm not quite so sure about. Bye now, troll.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 10:57am
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Between Patrino, Steve and me, we cover California, which is usually a good sampling of anything baseball.
I also know very few if any umpires who do it because they need the money, rather than for the love of umpiring. Anyone who contends otherwise is usually indicating a total lack of umpiring experience of any ... quality.
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Fri Oct 09, 2009, 11:34am
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My Edsel runs good, thank you.
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Bob P. ----------------------- We are stewards of baseball. Our customers aren't schools or coaches or conferences. Our customer is the game itself.
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