Just wondering...
 

....what's the point to a thread like this? What purpose does it serve? I was just over on the other boards reading to pass the time.

That is a thread that the moderators hould have deleted before the second post was made.
Softball Umpires are the best.
We may disagree and even get a little testy at times but by no means would any of us play out that kind of stupid, idiotic, immature, @$$inine, ringtailed nonsense on this board.:eek:

Flashback.....
 

After reading that thread, I thought that I was back on McGriff's....:eek: :eek:

OK, I only read enough to see it was personal, should have said demonstrating the value of class and civility, maybe some education; but more specifically moderators.

There is no doubt the baseball board is rough and tumble. Just about every thread of any substance (and some of no substance) degrade into various levels of flaming.

That thread is like a lady's debate society meeting compared with the stuff that was flying around last spring during the MiLB umpire's strike. On top of all the egos and class-structured put-downs was the union / non-union warfare, with accusations of being scabs, union thugs, etc., being thrown around. Quite entertaining in a car wreck sort of way.

There was even a seemingly mild-starting thread about ball bags recently (in which I posted a link to the bag the OP seemed to be asking about) that rapidly degenerated into a series of arguments back and forth about what "upper division" umpires would be caught dead wearing, where everything from elastic to tapered bags was deemed "small diamond" and where real umpires wore plate coats and didn't use a bag at all.

I love this quote from one of the posts. An alleged umpire actually changed associations to work, not avoid, but work his nephew's games!

Do you think the teams opposing that of his nephew would be a little upset if this was discovered? Do you think the association was dumb enough to support this move if they knew why?

Unbelievable.

3 minutes of my life.

gone

forever.