I am just driven to tears...

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Originally Posted by wadeintothem

You know who you are sending..no one is miracalized to a national. The people described by the OP or by Irish do not need to be there. There is plenty of "work" for the "worker bee" umpire. Nationals are different. If you send an umpire with pre existing issues and those issues come up at Nationals then you do carry some blame.

They may not belong there, but they get there...I spent an entire weekend with several of them....makes life tricky.....