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I have been on the road, will return home on tuesday. I have been working the phone lines with the umpires that are in Law Enforcement. Assault (which is what I have described here), of a person whom you know is a sports official is a class 4 felony. I have been told by one official that the assaulted person names the punishment, so to speak. If the official wants jail time the judge will give it. No matter what, the assaulter will have to check 'that box' on every job application he fills out.
Welsh is right though, the 'board' is an assigner with no contract. He has also bowed to the pressure from the league not to use an umpire because he 'calls too many rules' and is too serious. BTW, this is a Div I umpire that works a rec league so that he can give back to the people that gave him his start.
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