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Originally Posted by aceholleran
The answer is both simple and sad. These umps, for the most part, are the honchos of their local areas. They don't do HS, Legion, whatever. They have never been in a position where someone will take a look at their game and come back with any critique.
They got there through longevity and working games for free.
There is no mechanism in place to tell these shlubs that they look like horsesh&t. There's n one in W-port who'll do that, either. And W-port doesn't care, either.
Remember, we are in a vast minority when we cast asparagus at these umps. Even diehard baseball fans don't notice all the (minor and major) inadequacies of guys who couldn't buy a HS varsity game in Buttlick, ND.
You get to W-port via lobbying by your District Administrator, years of volunteering and not p*ssing anyone off.
Saddest of all, there is no one at LLHQ who is truly interested in advancing the excellence of LL umpiring. It's more about, "Joe Blow in SoCal, who has been in a D. A. the system 35 years, has an ump he wants in the WS. We have to throw him a bone."
And that's the way it is. Trust me on this.
Ace
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Sadly this is true of most all of the kids leagues now not just LL. In our state was have Dixie ball, Dizzy Dean, and a couple of select leagues and it is amazing the lack of quality that is seen in their tournaments.
My son and I went to two different "World Series is what they call it" tourneys this summer and the umpires that called the games were simply "taking money"
But as stated above, its not going to change and probably is only going to get worse as more and more the quality umpires are giving it up.
I gave up small ball about five years ago and I feel for my son who is now going to be playing with these kind of umpires for the next ??? years.
Thansk
David