Attitude and courtesy.

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by clevbrown

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

I'm probably one of the offenders Scott mentioned, and on real questions I'll try to let softball be the kinder, gentler board (I post on the other one ... and the attitude there has possibly rubbed off on me).

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.