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I am a baseball umpire that is just reading this forum, but thought I could provide some insight.
A few years ago I was a senior in high school but also umpired high school ball (Frosh, JV, and Varsity. I told the assignor NEVER to give me my high school's games. Well, one day I show up at the field and what do I find? My HS frosh team is the visiting team (with one of my teachers as the coach). I called the assignor who told me to do the game. I had known the Home Coach since I was about 5 and went and asked him if he had a problem with me doing the game. He told me that he knew me and that he had no problem with me doing the game.
It was by far the worst umpiring experience of my life. Although there were no issues in the game, I knew that I was doing the wrong thing. After the game I called my assignor again and told him that next time I would not do it.
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