I don't believe I used cursing to try and make my point!!!!!
But, I stood back and looked at what I said!!!!!
Oh for crying out loud. I'm not whining or pouting about anything. I'm failing to understand why ASA does what they do with respect to their rule set and publishing it in a digital format. The can lock it, they can make it so it can't be duplicated, they can do anything they want to restrict it cuz we're not going to sell or recopy the thing...we want to LOOK at it.
Read my orignal post! Did I say in that post I wanted it free? NO! I said, "for sale or whatever".
As I indicated, we don't need ASA "certified" umpires. They won't come because we don't pay for them, we choose to train our own. We don't have the "budget" to pay for them. Our level of play just doesn't justify "paying" anyone.
We don't need any insurance.
We don't need travel assistance.
nor fundraising services
nor hotels
nor airlines
nor rental cars
What we do need they won't let us have. I just don't see that logic....sorry!!!
We just need a PDF version to post on our website......and
we're willing to pay for it?
Promote ASA, you betcha. We put on senior tournaments at our facility and we use the ASA rule set with modifications instead of using SSUSA or our local NCSSA (Norcal Sr. Softball). We reach a lot of senior players promoting ASA. Some of our umpires work ASA events and they even teach/train our in house umpires. We tell our local leagues about our use of ASA and not the other senior softball organizations. We think ASA is a better group which is why we use them.
So, if you viewed this as self serving and denouncing to ASA you are completely off base with respect to what we are about. Thick skin you ain't got. Quick to make judgment calls, you got that down.