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Originally posted by TexBlue
I was talking to a friend/umpire of mine who registered with one of the umpire associations in the NE side of Ft Worth with ASA, last year. ... The association told him if they caught him calling for anyone else besides them (his primary) they would get him banned from calling at all.
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Just a clarification, Rick... the way you described this, it sounds like an association issue, not an ASA issue.
If your friend wanted to join a different association, and he won't be doing games regularly for the NE Ft Worth one, how/why are they still his "primary"?
ASA has agreed in writing to take no retribution against umpires who choose to double / triple register with different sanctioning bodies.
There is a big difference between putting your friend at the bottom of the assignment list vs trying to get him
"banned."
I don't think this association has a legal leg to stand on, but that doesn't mean their threat couldn't be made real through the "old boys" network.