Attitude and courtesy.

[clevbrown]

Thanks you Scott for this post. I am in my second year of umpiring and I have been watching this board for the past 3 years. Not many of us started out our first year and went to an official ASA umpiring school. Most of us umpired when our leagues needed help, then went to a clinic maybe not put on by a sanctioning body, and eventually some regualrly attend the offical umpriuing clinics put on by the various sanctioning bodies.

AT times I feel like some responses are rather belittling and does not encourage a newer umpire to come back here and ask a question. I have undoubtadly learned more form this message board than from any clinic I have attended. So, we should all encourage other umpires to post their questions and review these messgae boards.

For those of you who still feel you shouldn't answer the stupid questions because that idiot new umpiure hasn't looked it up yet, at elast try just giving the rule number you are stating which allows us new comers to look it up and find out for ourselves.
Thanks again for bringint his up.
clevbrown