[SanDiegoSteve]

First of all Kaliix, you don't know Tim well enough to insult his screen name, so don't. It weakens your point right off the bat.

Second of all Tim, where you live, maybe you are in a position to exert leverage over the schools. Here in California, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) is the governing body, and what they say goes. If any association doesn't like the CIF's rulings, they can sit on it and rotate. Trying to tell the Section CIF what to do here in San Diego would result in our association losing the high school contract. There are plenty of other umpire groups here who would just love to do the high school ball, but our association has the exclusive contract, and we plan to keep it. If we told them that we would only work games with two umpires, they would laugh us out of the board room. You guys must have a monopoly on the umpiring there in South Bend. It's not like that in most areas.

Steve