For some reason, this thread causes an old Jim Croce song to come to mind... Don't know why, exactly. :D

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown?

Oh... I was sure he meant Operator. ;)

Song wise I was thinking more along the lines of Question by the Moody Blues:

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me.
It's more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door?
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war.

It's where we stop and look around us
There is nothing that we need.
In a world of persecution
That is burning in it's greed.

It's not just the umpire program that is strong in DelAware.

Only that comment was old. Some of the other still exists. Tick off a couple of the wrong coaches and an umpire can disappear from a schedule quick enough or they can end up with a schedule that isn't exactly friendly. Some young umpires don't understand the "game" that is expected of them and dig a hole.

I don't care for it, but the only organization which can stop it is the NCAA.

It's not much different in some areas that still permit HS coaches to "red line" an umpire.

BTW, I didn't think my post showed a sign of being defensive. I'm having fun!:D

Love the Moody's.

There is always I HEAR YOU KNOCKIN' by Fats Domino, Dave Edmunds, Billy Swan, Clif Chenier and Alvin Lee, among others.

Whew!!!!! OK cause I thought you were serious.

I'll know better next time:)