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Old Thu Dec 31, 2009, 10:34am
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Originally Posted by David B View Post
The problem that we've faced, is that I don't see them sticking with it. We've done it enough years now to see the progression.

Of the 20 or so that we've worked with, only a couple are still umpiring. Once they get to college, they give it up etc.
Same here. For whatever reason it seems the young-teenage, "This is easy and I'd like to have some spending money" is overcome by the older-teenage "This takes up too much of my time when I could be doing something else and isn't worth it anymore."

If we can find a few that will keep at it, we consider ourselves lucky.
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