I just have a few questions (and a big thank you) for those of you who replied.
First of all, GarthB (or anyone else who would like to answer). In dealing with cancellations, do your coaches notify you and then you notify the ump or do you give the coaches the numbers (and names) of the umps and they notify them directly? Is it customary to give out the home numbers of the umps or is that best kept private? There are 2 reasons why I ask that question. One being basic privacy and the other being the fact that I searched the website of our high school association for those names, which took me a lot of time, of local umps and made the contacts myself. I have also aquired names by word of mouth. Do you look at the list of umps you have as yours or is it really not that big a deal?
Matt S. The interesting thing about what you said is that I did offer him the same game, which was moved to the next night and became part of a doubleheader. I thought I was being thoughtful but the first thing out of his mouth was "Am I gonna get paid?" It kinda ticked me off seeing as how I felt bad that his game was cancelled. To make a long story short, he was scheduled to do a DH last night in the other league and didn't show up.
My last question and then I'll drop this whole thing. Would it be possible to obtain a copy of a few contracts from those of you who assign umps so that I could formulate a contract of my own? Or is that a privacy thing too?
