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LL has "sold their soul"
LL is about one thing and one thing only - THEIR SHOW. They could care less what goes on during the regular season. They do not care that many LL organizations struggle to get umpires during the regular season because they have plenty come tournament time.
The SHOW is what IMO is keeping LL alive these days. Without the TV exposure, more and more LL organizations would most likely switch programs aka Ripken and the like which have a 50-70 program.
IMO, even a strong advocate of LL baseball should be outraged at what happened at Bristol. No matter how you slice it REPLAY was used to over-turn a call and that is AGAINST the rules. LL does what the heck they want.
Unfortunately it's NOT a kids game anymore when you use Replay etc.
Also, guess what! It's just a matter of time before we see PRO umpires doing the LL Regionals and World Series games.
Pete Booth
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Slam dunk on that one Pete.
My association with LL ended in '03. Back when I worked the Regional in Bristol in '01, the Eastern Region UIC was from up in your neck of the woods. Is the same UIC still in charge?