Running lane violation or game over?

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Originally Posted by xtreamump

Thank You, I think that I can learn alot from this Forum. I have to get used to the Idea of talking Softball to an unknown person behind a username. I can tell that you guys know the game. I will get used to it.

Just keep an open mind, and be willing to listen to the criticism you will get here. I guarantee you, you will get plenty of it, but it's not meant to tear you down as an umpire, it's meant to build you up.

Originally Posted by umpire12

ive been a bit thin skinned myself in the past, especially when ive been proven wrong. emotion and intent can easily me misinterpreted when being read on a computer screen.. bottom line is , these guys that you may percieve, and it is a perception, as bullies know what they are talking about and this is the best forum to get the right answer to any softball umpiring question. sometimes you just have to eat a piece of humble pie

I agree. When I first came here, there were a couple of posters on here (whose names I won't mention) who, I thought, were trying to tear me down. I kept thinking, "man, who the eff are these guys, and why are they riding me like this? I'm not a bad umpire, I swear!"

Then I really listened to what they had to say, and I learned a whole hell of a lot more than I ever imagined. It raised my game a LOT, and I even had one of my fellow umpires comment to me about it last week. She said that right between 2007 and 2008 (note that I joined in 2007), it was like night and day, like a light bulb had gone off in my head.

So as I always say, "you can't build something up without first tearing it down." I live by those words, and, as an umpire, they have served me well.