[PeteBooth]

Originally posted by JRutledge

but with the shortage of umpires out there, it might be hard to turn away someone that wants to be an umpire unless they do something that is out of line.

He positions himself on the outfield grass between 1b and 2b. The home team coach(a fellow umpire) asks for time and tells me that I should reposition my BU.

This guy is doing it for the money and on top of it all I smelled alcohol on his breath.

Sure sounds to me if this umpire was way out of line . Surprised the coach didn't call the assignor and complain.

As mentioned, I would guess that a coach would rather have 1 competent umpire out there rather than what your thread described.

Also, at youth sporting events - Alcohol cannot be tolerated from anybody That alone should warrent at least a talking to from the association and if this behavior is repeated - supsension.

Pete Booth