[gumpire]

Just got an e-mail from our local deputy UIC/assignor that I will not be working tournament this weekend because teams threatened not to play in the tournament if I was there!!!!!

1) What team named me (by name) and threatened not to play?
2) Since when do teams get to pick and choose umpire assignments?

3) If I'd known it was that easy to get rid of them, I'd have told them that I was working every single game ever!!!!

Honestly, I'm really irritated!!! If the issue is rule knowledge/application, that's 1 thing (1 thing the DUIC and/or UIC should have addressed long before now!!!), but if it's judgement, that's BULLSH*T!!!!

Thoughts? Opinions?