Flippant? One has and exhibits integrity and he has to be referred to as being irresponsible and disrespectful of umpiring?

I would assume that most umpires would indeed place their integrity above their wallet, and not swallow their integrity for a half a buck as you would. That, of course, makes them more respectful of umpiring, not less.

You can be as mercenary as you choose. Just don't ascribe your own shallowness and cheapness to everyone.

Your incorrect assumption that we are interested in what you have to say is quite amazing.

I don't know who you are getting your information from, but they are incorrect on both counts.

Steve, every statement he makes indicates his level: as a person and as an umpire.

He's obviously not much of an umpire, based on most of what he blathers about. If he is, then it's such low-level, inconsequential small-state umpiring that he has nothing to offer anyone like you--an active veteran umpire from the nation's baseball hotbed.

He's a cheap, mercenary, impossibly arrogant poser. Cool stuff to publicly flaunt.

Hey, Steve, this pompous poser is now umpiring in Florida and the Caribbean, which he must think are hotter hotbeds than yours, and where his amateurish ways and elementary knowledge are supposedly welcome. (Nice try.)

That's pretty amusing. This guy should definitely stick to being the unwelcome coward--a role he plays very well. He should play that role in a less complex area than umpiring, however.

And he's deleting his posts with all his manufactured stories and profiles!

A fraud within a fraud!

A "Duh" statement from his Member list page:

"Highest Quality has not made any friends yet "

This guy makes another statement that further cements his low-level umpire characterization.

Mercenary umpires are indeed rare to those of us actually active in competitive baseball umpiring. It was my contention, as well as the contention of other established actual umpires. It's the way true umpiring is with actual umpires.

LOL, never mind.