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Apparently there was a premature evaluation...not the first time someone on this board has done that. I've offended damn near everyone on this board. Some of the posters around here have, in the last few days, sent private messages informing me of how f'n stupid I am. However, at least some of them have forgiven me. And some of them have been kind enough to send me e-mails and even some notes in the good old U.S. Mail encouraging me in my own battles with my health. so...don't give up on all of us.
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Dave I haven't decided if I should call it from the dugout or the outfield. Apparently, both have really great views! Screw green, it ain't easy being blue! I won't be coming here that much anymore. I might check in now and again. Last edited by NCASAUmp; Thu May 03, 2007 at 10:43am. |
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So ... I'll try to be nicer when that "idiot new umpire" asks a question they could have looked up. That said... I suspect I'll still have trouble believing that someone who claims to have never seen a runner tag up on a fly ball (or leave early on a fly ball) before, is actually an umpire. I'm pretty sure I will continue to think that such a person is not an umpire, and is instead either a 12-year old pretending to be an umpire to resolve a question from their recent backyard Calvinball game, or just a troll, trying to stir things up and make the site worse. Like I said yesterday ... my girl playing 8U understands that you have to tag on a fly ball, and that if you left early and it's caught, you have to go back or you could be out. That question was BARELY more credible than, "Is a foul ball a strike?", and LESS credible than "Are the hands part of the bat?" If that makes me bitter or mean ... I'm not sure I can fix that.
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I encourage others, especially those new to this board and to umpiring, to hang in there and ignore rude comments from the stands. Scott, Thank you very much for trying.
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Dave I haven't decided if I should call it from the dugout or the outfield. Apparently, both have really great views! Screw green, it ain't easy being blue! I won't be coming here that much anymore. I might check in now and again. |
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I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the folks on this board for your "good attitude and courtesy" in allowing me (a non-official) to participate. I have learned a lot here and have lots more to learn.
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Coming from a "player" background (D1/NAIA Collegiate catcher - member of ASA Nat. champ. team)....I think I bring a sometimes unique perspective to some situations.
ONE thing I've learned in my years of umpiring (10+, now) is that we're there because of THEM....and not the opposite. It's OUR field.....but it's THEIR game......and we need to stay out of their way at EVERY opportunity. I used to post here a LOT. Then.....(and I've experienced it, just today) the nit-picking of questions got to be a downer.....and it became unimportant for me to ask questions of my "peers". Sad.
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To address the rest of your post, I agree with much of what you said, except that it is also their field. I am just a part of it. I am kidded by others I work with as having a Zen approach to umpiring. I hate anything that interrupts the flow of the game that the players have set, and I feel I have done my best job when no one even knows I was there.
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