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Originally Posted by BretMan
Just ran across something interesting that kind of fits in with this thread...
My two areas of certification/registration are NFHS baseball and ASA softball. I thought that I would look into becoming certified for NFHS softball, so I searched for and found the web site run by their local umpire group. On the first page, there was a plea for more umpires! It said that they have a severe shortage and were begging their members to accept more games to their schedules.
So I contact their association president for more info. Come to find out that their mandatory meetings are held on exactly the same the same nights, at the exact same hour, as the mandatory NFHS baseball meetings are held.
This makes it impossible for an umpire to meet the classroon requirements and get certified for both sports in this area
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Common BS tactic of baseball umps, then, of course, they can proclaim how softball guys
never Xover because they are weenies. Back in GA, we made it a rule that yiou had to be eilgible for either and assigned to either. Pay rates were the same.