I can assure you Bryan is NOT a doofus. This was his second term in the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in about six weeks' time, so before I called anyone a doofus or questioned their mechanics...

I call 'em like I see 'em. I've seen better mechanics from first year umpires.

Though I've never met the man, his reputation is that of a pretty good umpire. I've seen him a few times and he seems to utilize the extra wide stance. As long as he can get out of the way of the catcher when necessary, I don't have a problem with it.

Obviously sir, your opinion is uneducated and insignificant. I am sure Bryan will continue to enjoy his NCAA, WCWS and International assignments. Hopefully you will continue to enjoy your ND and SD assignments.

It may be insignificant but uneducated it is not and you also can't take it away from me since it's mine. :D

Your slowpitch helps you form an opinion that allows you to critique and bash? And this makes it educated? Glad you admit it's insignificance

As far as your opinion, your right......you deserve it...feel free to keep it.

Education??
 

Your slowpitch helps you form an opinion that allows you to critique and bash?
I see major structural problems with this statement as well as terrible grammar.

And this makes it educated?
This is an independent clause but it is not an interrogative sentence; remove the conjunction.

Glad you admit it's insignificance
This is not a sentence
"It's" is only a contraction when it is contracting "it is." It's not supposed to have the apostrophe when it's used as a possessive.

As far as your opinion, your right......you deserve it...feel free to keep it.
"Your right," should be "you're right." "You're is a contraction of "you are."
"You deserve it" and "Feel free to keep it." are complete sentences and all sentences should begin with a capital letter.
An ellipsis is only three consecutive periods, not six.

This is not a personal attack as we do not resort to that on this board. We discuss rules, judgments and opinions; we do not discuss each other. I would appreciate it if you would not resort to personal attacks and would simply discuss the subject matter. I think you would find something like, "I don't agree," better than, "Obviously sir, your opinion is uneducated and insignificant. I am sure Bryan will continue to enjoy his NCAA, WCWS and International assignments. Hopefully you will continue to enjoy your ND and SD assignments." I know the rest of us would. Thanks for the time you spent with us on this board. I hope that it was helpful to you.

The message trumps the words, and defended a personal attack. I wasn't the 1 calling some 1 a "doofus". Your hubris was ill directed.

As someone who grew up around lead, hot type and Linotype machines, I must point out that you are wrong. An elipsis is NOT three periods, although I supsed that is the way it is done in most (but not all) computerized fonts and typefaces today. If you look around a little, you will find there are specific commands for a true ellipsis.

For those of us beholden to the way things should be done (kind of like polishing our shoes before we go out to do a very low level co-ed rec game) there are things like that ellipsis — just like I just typed alt+0151 (on the numeric keypad) for that dash, NOT two hyphens.

So, before you go bashing someone, know of whence you speak. It was some philosopher, Sophocles or Shakespeare or P. Diddy,who said something to the effect that a fool is not known until he opens his mouth.

Why did you change it. I like Pompous better.

I stand corrected. Fortunately I know of which philospher you speak so we can help each other. It is King Solomon who wrote, "Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent." Proverbs 17:28

Again, I certainly was not trying to bash anyone. It is not my way. I was merely showing the poster that none of us is perfect and that a little civility will go a long way. Thanks for the printer's lesson. I wish that my college prof was still living so I could share with him about the ellipsis.

FYI space hyphen space will create a dash in Word once a space is typed following the word that succeeds the dash.
Thanks BKB. I do appreciate you.:)

I don't think I called the guy a doofus or dufuss, I said he "looked like a doofus". I did call him a goofball though and I apologize. BTW, FYI I do more than SP softball.

It was to civil.

Yep, I knew it was in there somewhere.
BTW, if you run across the path of a big fella named Jeff Watts, tell him Brooks said hello. He'll know who ya mean. :)