For those not in the know, I'm in the 14th year of my umpiring career, and am faced with an inevitability. Barring some medical miracle wherein cartilage can be regrown via some pill you ingest, I'm going to need my hip replaced. In late 2019, I started to experience a shooting, stabbing, lancing (how many more weapons can I employ?) pain down my left leg as I would move around on the baseball field. It would be most evident when I was on Plate, shifting my weight from one foot to the other betw