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Well,
ChapJim:
Good idea defining curfew . . . I missed that reference.
In my area there are very few "timed" games. We have a Legion Wood bat Tourney that limits to 2:15 per game. In the last three years they have never had to use the time limit. I choose not to work that tourney.
Games:
We have just about as many games as anyone would want.
We have a high school association that has about 180 members. This includes about 30 college umpires.
During the school season we work 50 high schools and about 30 to 35 colleges.
We are short umpires all spring and a guy can work just about every day if he selects.
During the summer things change.
We have many fewer umpires and work many, many more teams.
We are short handed nearly every weekend. We have to send single umpires to games that would happily pay for two . . . we do not have the ability to send three man crews when requested.
Just too many games.
I work the number of games that "I" select to work. I work often enough to help the group but not to often to cause problems at work.
As we know, ad naseum, I don't work Little Tyke ball.
Chap, I work High School in the spring (retired from the college group 3 or 4 years ago) and AAA American Legion during the summer.
I passed on working high school playoff games this season.
We (Portland) host the State Championship Babe Ruth (13/15 yr olds) each year, I select not to work that.
We also have MABL and MSBL, I select not to work that.
We have many AAU Travel tourneys that pass through our area. I select not to work those.
So you said:
"However, if you refuse to work anything that doesn't meet your definition of "real baseball" then you couldn't work very many games over the course of a year."
That maybe true in your area but not mine.
I am sure, if I wanted, I could work 150 games per year under my set criteria. I have a friend who has the same rules as I and he works from 125 to 150 games a year (he does do college so that gives him 20 extra games if weather permits).
Jim, I select to work about 50 games a year.
Now, as you are certainly aware, I have worked over 3,700 games over the last 36 years. None have been small diamond.
So in my area an umpire can work a "full schedule" by only working "real baseball."
Hope this clears things up.
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