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As a younger umpire that is in his mid 20's, let me say that I am now back from a 3 year hiatus do to the fact that I have a demanding career and have to put that first if I want to feed my family. I worked my way through the ranks of officiating over the course of 3 years before I was assigned any HS level ball and was proud of my hard work and loved the experiences.
To Pete's comment about having that 4PM start time. RIGHT ON! My point is here that I wish I never had to leave. I so wanted to keep my status even though I had to change states and organization but I atlease may not of had to take 3 years off until I did my next game. Really the only reason that I've been able to start back up again was due to NSA tourneys and late LL games.
If there is any way that associations can start leveraging what say-so they have to get games schelduled so that working professionals can do them; my guess is that the talent pool of officials will get just a bit deeper.
Just my $.02 worth.
Tim
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