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Originally Posted by chapmaja
The question is why are they working so many in a row? Is it because they are greedy, or is it because there are not enough umpires to give them breaks and the only way to get games covered is to umpire that many in a row?
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Some of both of those, and I'll throw in another one. Lazy UICs. If a UIC for a tournament can get a rotation of 3 umpires to work 1 field for an entire day, it's easier for him/her than to try to add in a couple additional officials to ensure nobody's actually working too many games.
We had a UIC schedule a 76 year old umpire for 5 games on a Saturday. Course, he didn't get any semi-final or championship game on Sunday. He was JAG stupid enough to do the games for the money. And the next day could barely get out of bed.
I, too, am concerned about the quality of product officials are delivering when working their 4th, 5th, 8th game of a day.