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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
I will say the same things as DG said: Out here, yeah, you do have to be God's gift to umpiring, or a reasonable facscimilie to get assigned these games, as they are far more competitive than your everyday HS varsity ball, which out here is pretty damn good too. People aren't allowed to work it, not by who assigns it, but by their qualifications.
You put inexperienced umpires on Legion ball here, you're asking for trouble.
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inexperienced umpires is an oxy moron and I agree with RUT.
Just like when we played you get EXPERIENCE by playing not SITTING the PINE. "Someone" has to give us a chance. Just like when some of us graduated college and wanted that first job. Other than College we had NO experience other than our grade point average.
Hopefully an inexperienced official can get paired with an experienced official to promote advancement within the organization. If young umpires see that there is virtually no hope of getting these games membership will decline.
Typically what happens is "Politics" meaning the "top dogs" do not want to give up these games and are relunctant to train the new rookies who given the opportunity might actually replace them.
In Summary: This type of situation is an area by area answer. If umpires are in demand an assignor does his best to put the most qualified officials on the Legion/ CBL games but sometimes he/she simply cannot and the inexperienced offical will get their feet wet and IMO that is not a bad thing.
Pete Booth