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Timely topic
I pray for rain sometimes. Last week was a prime example.
Don't get me wrong- I love LOVE umpiring. I was away from it twice since I started and I missed it terribly.
But take last week for example. Two back to back nights of 7 inning AA Legion doubleheaders. Starting temperature about 95; humidity 70%. Start time for each night: 6pm. I am finding at my age that those kinds of schedules make me tired- and the games themselves would make me tired . . . and then there's the real job. On those two days following my two nights of double headers, I had a mediation and a hearing.
I figure conservatively that out of the 48 hours in those two days, I worked 32. A rainout that second night would not have hurt my feelings at all.
So yeah, not so much for lack of love of baseball or umpiring as just needing a rest. "Fatigue makes cowards of us all"- Patton. My game (especially my zone) suffers when I am physically exhausted.
Strikes and outs!
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