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Originally Posted by Steve M
It may well be a numbers game - too many games & not enough umpires - and much of the fault there is the TD, not necesasarily the uic.
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This, at least in my area, is usually the reason. Sometimes, it is unpredictable if an umpire or two go down or call off after accepting an assignment.
OTOH, there are some umpiring whores out there that don't want to hear "one and one" and will not take an assignment if they know the format in advance.
To each their own, but I'm with Steve on this one.