The Teaching of Umpires

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Originally posted by wadeintothem
still a slight overreaction... some reaction is justified and expected - but this is not the end of all umpiring as we know it.

I took my test, I took you up on your offer to grade but you never responded to me..

That, sir, just isn't true. I have never ignored or failed to respond to anyone asking to have their test corrected. Last year I did about four. This year, only one person has taken me up on my offer and it wasn't from this board.

the answers were posted here and I was glad to see them and used them to grade my own test. Of course you dont owe me to grade my test, but had they not been posted here, I would not been able to self grade my test and learn from it... it would have been turned in and gone whereever it is ASA exams go to die.

Exams in my area are always returned to the individual.

I think they should publish the answers.

Well, you are allowed an opinion.

Attitude in wanting to learn proper umpiring is not affected by availability of answers. Either you are a cheater and cheat or you try hard, read this board and other study, and try to learn - or you skate.

The availability of the answers is not the quantitative marker of that desire to learn.

No, but a desire to learn doesn't qualify one to be an umpire. I know many people that have a desire to learn. It doesn't make the good, it just means they want to be good. Ball games should not be decided by desire of an wannabe umpire.

If it were, the ASA would outline exactly how the exam was to be taken, actually grade the exam, and use it as a board. It is not a board, it is a tool for learning. Big difference IMO.

None of your umpires who have yet to take the test will be negatively affected by having the answers.. either they know and learn or they dont. If they are a cheater to begin with, you have other issues with them, the answers to make a squat of difference.

Isn't it amazing how often those who attempt to justify a shortcoming are often the ones who come up short.

I'm done with this one.