Appreciation for umpires from Raymond Chen, a Microsoft programmer

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Up until (and through) your post, I agree.

I see posts from individuals who automatically tend to take posts from others the "wrong" way, based on past history.

I have no idea who Patrick Chen is (well, now I know he's a microsoft programmer), but it seems important to the OP. I just read it as "article on Umpiring from a non-umpire".

First off, SAUmp's post was #2 in the thread. Are you saying that every post after that was making fun of the poster's name? And it wasn't Raymond Chen who was the butt of Mr. Umpire's (very) little joke, it was the poster of Polish origin, named Patrick.

Here is my take: Kevin Finnerty overreacted to Mr. Umpire's (very) little joke. Mr. Umpire overreacted to Kevin Finnerty taking exception to his (very) little joke. The only fair solution is a do-over! Or the tie goes to the runner (not). (I'm not going to shove my little sarcastic face and apologize, either!)