The 18 Gold

[AtlBlue]

I agree that these posting shouldn't become personal, however, I was not the person who threw her associates under the bus to begin with. I know we all talk about other umpires (both good and bad) and it can seem that we are in a Soap Opera!! But to speak of her associates in such a negative tone after saying such great things while she was there rank very high on my hypocrite meter. BTW I do not think its "thin skinned" to stand up for other people.
Now as far as the "Politics" are concerned, guess what, there are "Politics" everywhere and in everything we do away from ballfield. There MAY have been umpires there who "worked" there way onto the roster but I knew every local umpire there (and some of the out of towners)and for one reason or another, everyone assigned deserved to be there just like anyone else.
There are three teams on the ballfield, the two playing and us. If one umpire has a bad call, game, or day we as umpires pick that person off the ground, tap him/her on the butt and say "Get the next one" not make snippish comments about politics, GOB networks and "IMHO the umpires sucked" comments on this board. Its not what we do as umpires.


"Its the hard that makes it great"
Jimmy Dugan