How much rope, after you mess up?

[MD Longhorn]

It's interesting.

On the coaching side, I'm enjoying seeing my daughter's love of the game grow, and I'm liking seeing the improvement of the other girls on the team and knowing I've helped them. I love seeing the light in their eyes when they do something great.

But when I was umpiring, half of my games were in tourneys here and there, and the local games I tended to get decent games and decent partners. And for high school games that's still the case. Having Joe Generic Umpire (or 2 of them) out there has really opened my eyes to how wide a range of umpires are being employed. Some really really good ones. Some absurdly ridiculous bad ones. Some rookies that give a crap that I can see getting better over the season. Some rookies that enjoy the money and the hot dogs and have no desire to learn a damn thing.

I definitely have a wider perspective on the whole thing, that's for sure.