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Old Thu Jul 18, 2013, 02:14pm
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I am not assuming about YOU, but I am assuming what will happen if you don't do as you are told at an ASA event, you will be sent home. So either you will do as told and work, or you won't and you won't work.

You suggested if you spend the $400 for the advanced FP camp, you will be shown correctly how to button hook in 3-man. It was explained right here and you got it for free. What's missing?

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Wow, you sure do make some wild-ass assumptions about what I will and won't do. Do you even know me?

I asked what I thought was a simple question: How does U3 execute the button-hook as required by ASA mechanics? I got the answer. What I'm going to do or not do, whether I'm a robot or a thinking umpire, or how I spend $400 adds nothing to the discussion.
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Old Thu Jul 18, 2013, 03:35pm
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(snip) So either you will do as told and work, or you won't and you won't work.

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Funny, that's how it is a my straight job, too.
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Old Thu Jul 18, 2013, 03:38pm
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Or find a better boss and job. Not everyone can, but we all wish we could.

Luckily we are independent contractors, and free will wins.

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Funny, that's how it is a my straight job, too.
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Old Thu Jul 18, 2013, 04:01pm
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Luckily we are independent contractors, and free will wins.
Schedulers are independent as well, free to schedule those who will perform as they are asked, as opposed to simply making stuff as they go and running around where they want. I grant that the umpire population is sometimes not so great that this sort of umpire never works at all ... but those who work at their craft, strive to get better, and continue to learn will get more (and better) games in the long run.
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Old Fri Jul 19, 2013, 05:27am
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You suggested if you spend the $400 for the advanced FP camp, you will be shown correctly how to button hook in 3-man. It was explained right here and you got it for free. What's missing?
You're making the ridiculous assumption that I would spend $400 to go to an advanced camp for the sole purpose of learning how to button hook in 3-man.
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Old Fri Jul 19, 2013, 11:22am
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I make no assumptions, you wrote it. Perhaps in jest. Like I said, I am making NO assumptions.

But no, I don't think you would pay that much to learn just how to button hook. I sense you might not comprehend why you MUST button hook, since you didn't at first and seem natural not to do so, but was later corrected by your training UIC to do so regardless on a clean base hit. It would make more sense to spend money to learn if to button hook, or why and when it makes sense to do it.

Here is what I can assure you. If you pay $400 to goto that advanced camp, they will tell you you must button hook on a clean base it to the outfield, period and without exception. Inside outside theory, period.


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You're making the ridiculous assumption that I would spend $400 to go to an advanced camp for the sole purpose of learning how to button hook in 3-man.
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