[wadeintothem]

As I thought about that post at todays clinic, I'll also add there is a lot more opportunity in softball for the "hobbyist" umpire than baseball.

Virtually, the highest pinnacle of hobby/part time umpiring in baseball is NFHS. I consider NFHS to be mid level at best, and easy to do.. pay your dues, attend a couple of meetings, and go do it. No big deal. But if you talk to some (especially on this BB forum), you'd think NFHS was the Mount Sinai of umpiring.

In softball, the opportunities are much better for higher level of ball than NFHS.

Length of games?

I dont see how you can rib them about that, considering I will be working 12-14 games on a weekend consisting of 10+ hour days.

Boredom between pitches though... yep softball has baseball beat by a mile.

Attitude.. excluding mens games, softball is also the big winner there.

Baseball IS the sport though. That is just fact. The beginning and the end. Its where we probably all started and it the 2nd greatest sport there is (2nd only to football).