[QUOTE]Originally posted by BigUmpJohn

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OK. I live in West Mifflin. I am completely HORRIBLE with directions, but I'm pretty sure I know where that's at. I'll think about it for next season. :D

I really was just kidding about umping here, we might not be here next year anyhow. I was just venting I guess on what seems to be a lack of professionalism (and knowledge in some cases) with umpires around here.

Maybe somehow I can direct them to this forum, so they could learn a thing or two.


just venting again,
JP

Just call me Mr. Gullible then. :) I do need to find some other places to go to, also. Just to get a change of pace.

Back to the original topic of this thread:

"How can that be a strike?!? It can't be a strike if it lands there?" (veteran batter in men's rec ASA SP league, and no, the pitch did not land on the plate.)

Later in the same at bat, he stepped out and asked me to define the strike zone for him. I gladly enlightened him. He was so surprised, I think he had never heard the correct definition before.

My response probably would have been more like, "After all these years of *****in', you're just asking this question now?" or "You mean you don't know the rule, but you are sure that I've been wrong all this time!"

Nope, game time isn't the time for clinics. I'd be more than happy to talk to them before or after the game, but not during it unless it involved a protest.